The Archive · 1930

A New Endurance Flight Record

Chicago, June 29.

'A new endurance flying record of! 421 hr, 21 min, 30 sec. was set at 6.01 o'clock this__morning Central Daylight Saving Time by the aeroplane Chicago, piloted by the brothers Albert and Walter Manning.

Their sister, Miss Irene Manning, other aeroplane which through a rubber hose at regular recesses after the style of an Indian]

for special exhibits. An impressive feature is the lamp which] as submitted by Comrade Stalin and] intervals. more especially Agricultural policy "which was] quire with July's, although his report on his!

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Tights up the great oct anal dome pver the central staircase.

India House has all the mechanical contrivances for time-waving and for reducing the need movement from one roo! to another fo a minimum. In addition to the Post Offide telephone installation, there is a full private installation for speech between the heads of departments and their staffs. The Clock in each room is electrically controlled by a master clock, which Sri turn is electrically adjusted to Greenwich time.

The New India House has been erected on the north-western corner of the Bush House site, and covers} fan area of about 12,400 square feet, The frontage, of about 190ft., is in Aldwych and opposite to the Waldorf Hotel, The preliminary] excavations were finished in March, 1928, The building has been designed by Sir Herbert Baker, t.a., and the structural and. mechanical eneinsering services have been in the Hands of Dx, Oscar Faber. The building,. including the basement and mezzanine floors, on 12 floors.

ne of the facade follows the of Aldwych and so continues; Ithat of the adjacent wing of Bush House; azd the two buildings are the same height, The external treatment of India House differs, however, several important particulars from that of the older building. There is, for, example, shout 2 windows, which thenisel Digger than those in Bush House, ami differendy an god, a certain endorsed by all speakers including} even the members of the opposition though the speeches of the latter are by the press as Trant-Ocean Kuo] of ornamental Restrained, but definite, ornament: tion is also used elsewhere. main entrance is flanked by a pai of slender pillars surmounted by seated Hons sculptured in stone, and above there are a crown and star. The central part of the facade immediately above this entrance is ornamented with a carved frieze, ud there is also row of plaques in colour and gilding.

The general impression of the whole is one of massiveness and beauty, and the decoration, even while the stone is still starkly w in its newness, remains restrained almost to severity From the hall prepared for exhibits a wide public staircase leads to a gallery, which leads, in its turn, to a high vaulted library and ree These

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