THE NOME NUGGET
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Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 187S
Wednesday, January 2, 1946
PERSPECTIVE
This year of 1946 should be one of marked improve
ment in the return to “normal” peacetime business with
a boom in sight to exceed any the country has ever
known, provided however, that labor strife can be con
cluded.
Labor is the only postwar problem standing in the
way of future progress.
With the closing of five years of war the scene is
shifting back to peacetime domestic industries in which
the wage and price muddles and strike threats must be
settled before employment and production can attain
their goals.
A number of infant industries will boom, if given a
chance. The civilian aviation, both private and commer
cial, will receive added impetus as labor “permits” re
conversion to get under full steam, producing consumer
goods, in quantities sufficient for the tremendous de
mand.
1946 will be a big political year with parties declaring
all-out campaigning for 34 governorships, 435 House
jobs, and one-third of the seats in the Senate, and Presi
dent Truman might possibly take the stump in his own
behalf.
New taxation laws going into effect should give no
slight impetus to business activity inasmuch as there
has been a six billion reduction for the year.
Observers state that the trend for women is toward
“ultra-femininity in dress, manners, and home, with the
accent on fireside activities.
In science, there will be many new advances, includ
ing the revamping of atom structures, plastics, synthet
ics and prefabricated homes.
Small communities are not immue to prosperity or
improvement of conditions in which changes are bound
to come.
Alaska communities are looking forward with alarm
to the outcome of the freight rate hearings, which are
now set for June 8, this year in Juncftiu, and at a later
date in Washington, D. C.
Nome seems to have a fairly good business outlook
with optimistic investors putting in more modern equip
ment, rebuilding stores, improving service, new build
ings. With the majority taking this view, there can be
little doubt that there is a bright year ahead for our
community. Mining is scheduled to reopen with an im
petus heretofore unknown.
1946 should be a busy year.
HOLLYWOOD TO CHICAGO, 3 IfOURS I
Before 1955 all new airplanes, including small pri
vate airplanes, will be equipped with gas turbine or jet j
motors, predicts Hall L. Hibbard, vice president andi
chief engineer of Lockheed Aircraft Corporation.
You will \>e able to fly from Hollywood to Chicago
in less than three hours in a jpanT^hme that uses gas,
turbine engines combined witK jeT^propulsion. On
longer trips you may fly a part of the way at heights of
100 miles above the earth in rocket-propelled airplanes
where speed can be increased greatly since air resist
ance is negligible.
For slightly over 40 years airplanes have been coast
ing along at subsonic speeds. Now we have the prospect
of a gas turbine driving a propeller for “slower” speeds
or a gas turbine operating a jet propulsion unit giving
the higher speed more economically than with recipro
cating engines, Mr. Hibbard explained.
At sonic speeds, around 760 miles an hour, compres
sibility becomes a major problem, causing violent vi
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bration and buffeting to every surface of the airplane.
However, Mr. Hibbard and other aeronautical en
gineers believe that if an airplane could pass into the
supersonic speed range, compressibility conditions
probably approach normal. Therefore, theoretically,
there is no limit to the speeds at which we can fly safe
ly. The two major problems of very high speed flight
are high fuel consumption, which Mr. Hibbard predict
ed will soon be solved, and ways to provide air crews
flying at high speeds and at high altitudes with livable
cabins in the sky.—Robert N. Farr in Science Service.
MOVIES ARE NOT SO RELAXING
(Science Digest)
Hollywood may be able to use a new scientific find
ing to predict the box-office success of various pictures.
All that would be necessary would be to take the tem
peratures of preview audiences before and after seeing
the film, Dr. N. Kleitman, of the University of Chicago,
suggests in the magazine Science.
Body temperature goes up from one-half to one de
gree Fahrenheit while attending motion pictures, Dr.
Kleitman has found. The rise is enough to be called
“highly significant.”
Going to the movies is far from being relaxing in the
physiological sense, this finding shows. The picture may
give “escape from the humdrum reality of existence.”
However, even though the spectator is sititng, presum
ably relaxed in a comfortable seat, for two or more
hours, the subject matter of the film makes his muscles
tense to such an extent that his temperature goes up.
Dr. Kleitman became interested in the effect of mo
tion pictures in the course of a long study on the daily
body temperature cycle. He found that after attending a
two- or three-hour motion picture show, the subject’s
temperature was higher than usual for that particular
time of day.
A teen-aged girl who went to the movies every two or
three weeks over a perior of two years and a young
lady in her early twenties who was a “movie addict’’
and went to 29 shows in two months were then made
subjects of a special s^udy.
The teen-ager s “movie’ ’temperature ranged between
99 and 100.15 degrees Fahrenheit. At the same time,
about 4 p.m., on non-movie days, it ranged from 97.95
F. to 99.'{O F. The young lady “movie addict” went to
shows mostly in the evening. Her temperature rose
about half a degree on movie nights, though when she
saw a double feature, her temperature was lower after
the second feature than after the first. Either the sec
ond feature was less effective than the first in raising
the temperature or the normal fall in temperature late
in the evening was too strong to be reversed.
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Ins Angeles—these comics will
snend mo^e than $200 000 on Lou1
Oosfello Jr. Youth foundation—a
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be featured. If we had more of
these kind of persons — there
would not be any delinquency in
this country of ours. ^
James Craig was a professional
football player, boxer, oil well
driller and sales promotion expert
before he became an actor . . .
Spring Byington’s weight—123
pounds—is exactly the same as
when she started her stage career
25 years ago.
Susan Hayward posed for over'
4000 publicity pictures while first
under contract at Warner Bros.
Studio—and never appeared in a
motion picture . . . Loretta Young
chose her first name for the screen
in honor of Colleen Moore’s pa
tron saint.
Bob Cummings’ full name is
Charles Clarence Robert Orville
Cummings—the Orville, inciden
tally, is in honor of Orville WrigK^
and might account for Bob’s all
consuming interest in aviation . . .
Right now he spends one day a
week flying . . . Ralph Bellamy
had to produce a Broadway show
with himself as the star, in order
to lift himself from the category
of a dull, colorless character in
which Hollywood had placed him.
Joe E. Brown began his career
at the age of 9 as an acrobat and
was billed as “Baby Joe, the Child
Wonder” . . . Martha Tilton, as a
teen-age swing fan, was once Jpr
chased out of rehearsal hall by?
Benny Goodman, who hired her a
few years later as a vocalist . . .
Lucille Bremer was once a ballet
dancer with the Philadelphia Op
era Company and later a member
of the famed Radio City Music
Hall Rockettes in New York.
J. Carroll Naish made his debut
as a singer—he was one of a trio
that sang before President Wilson
when the latter attended a mili
tary show in Paris while discuss
ing peace terms at the conclusion
of the First World War.
Gracie Allen got her stage break^
at the age of three . . . Charles^
Coburn is the first and only mem
ber of his family to follow the the
ater as a career—his family have
been musicians for three genera
tions—his grandfather, Moses Co
burn, invented a pipe organ in
1870, which was the forerunner
of the type in use today—the ac
tor’s late sister, Emma, coached
Louise Homer, Metropolitan Op
era singer.
At one time Louis Haywara
played the role of Frederic
March’s father in “Anthony Ad-«$
verse” ... Hoagy Carmichael’s
! song “Stardust,” his greatest com
position, scored in one evening,
I gathered dust on the shelf for over
' three years before it became a
! great success ... Jon Hall raises
pink grapefruit in Florida—first
i time I’ve ever heard of it.
John Charles Thomas, a firm
1 believer in the value of time, does
not keep an engagement book, but
had trained himself to make a
mental daily schedule which he
follows to the letter . . . Brian
Donlevy has purchased a home in
Hawaii for vacations.