Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-25

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@. How far did the Hoover party
travel on the South American trip
S. D.
A. President-elect Hoover and his
party Travelled approximately $4,000
miles on the recently completed good
will trip to South America.
@. Is it true that a regenerative radio
set interferes with other sets?-J. M. G.
A. No doubt you have heard the
squeals or whistles coming from your
| radiophones or loud speaker when you
turn the regeneration dial up too far
This regenerative action causes the re-
ceivers to act as miniature transmitter
and produces carrier wave similar to
- biOoANesoC otutAOAI. may
be heard by other receivers at distance
of from 10 to 25 miles. Every time you
hear your set squeal the same sound
Is going out into the air. The best
policy is to keep the regenerative dial
just below the point where the Squeal
starts.
@. What do seats cost in the grand
stands erected for the inaugural parade?
w. S. P.
A. The top price is $3.50. They scale
downward for less desirable locations.
Q. How many eggs are there in a
| fish roe?-M. B.
A. The various species Of fish produce
varying amounts of eggs. The Atlantic
salmon tSalmo salar) averages 1.426 Der
fish, while the surgeons average $780,
| 600 eggs per fish.
@. What steamships made first
regular trips between Germany and the
United States?-M. C. S.
A. In the middle of the eighteenth
| century Germany's trade was with the
north and west coast of Europe. After
| the end OF the Revolutionary War
Germany established the first sailing
| line between the United States and
Germany. On March /, l847, a steam.
ship company financed with German
and American capital inaugurated the
first regular steamship service under
the name of the Ocean Steam Naviga.
ton Co. In the beginning this line
had only two boats, both built in the
United States. The Washington wa.
| launched January 80, 1847. The Her.
mann was launched March 81, 184S.
Q. Has former Gov. AL Smith 9
college degree?-S. L.
A. Gov. Smith was granted, In 1928
an honorary degree from Columbia
University. New York City. He did moi
graduate from any school, being com.
PEELED to leave the graded school al
the age OF Is years, after the death oil
his father.
@. How many cattle are there in the
country?-L. s. D.
A. The estimated number on January
| !, 1929, was 55,751 900. This Is about
the same that it was a year earlier. but
the value Is higher-the value per heac
now being $685., as compared with
$5l.l0 on January /, 1928.
@. Was installment buying of house.
known in the days Of Rome?-B. j. r.
A. 1t is related that Crassus, a frient
OF Julius Caesar, amassed q fortune BIZ
purchasing homes outside the walls Of
Rome and selling them to people or
easy terms.
@. What Is the plural Of "hypote.
| nuse"?-K. K
A. The plural is "hypotenuses.
@. Please give the story of the try
out of Westinghouse air brake
A. orc.
"A. The air brake was invented by
Westinghouse In 1869. When he was 20
years Of age an accident started his in
terest in railroad problems While study
ing unified control of brakes he read
OF the use Of compressed air in drilling
the Mont Gems Tunnel in italy. After
his first patent was issued he interested
w. w. Card, superintendent of the
| Steubenville Division of the Panhandle
Railway, and obtained permission to
equip a locomotive and four passenger