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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high-speed atomic particles or ions. The cyclotron affords a method of achieving these high speeds through a combination of electric and magnetic forces acting on the ions which have their origin at the center of a large vacuum chamber. These forces cause the atomic particles to travel in a spiral, receiving a "push" of many thousand volts at each half revolution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Announces Completion of Atom Smasher, Useful in Research | 12/19/1939 | See Source »

...opportunities, where freedom requires no safeguards, where justice requires no striving. . . . Such dreams are not without value and one could join in them with satisfaction but for the mind troubled by recollection of human frailty, the painful human advance through history, the long road which humanity still has to travel to economic and social perfections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: Symbol | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

When he graduated he was awarded the Sheldon Prize Fellowship-$1,500 for a year's travel outside the U. S. He had looked forward to China: he had studied Chinese at Harvard, and he wanted to see what war is like. What he saw made him chuck traveling and go straight to work for the Chinese Government as a translator and writer in the Ministry of Information. Recently he realized the importance of Shansi Province in North China warfare, became impatient with meagre reports which were drifting out, and so decided to go and see for himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Eagles in Shansi | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...pipelines took a flood of oil (1938's total: 1,158,000,000 bbls.) that railroads would have liked to have in their tank cars. At the same time automobiles and motorbuses cut passenger traffic particularly on short runs, and finally airplanes arrived to cut long distance Pullman travel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: When If Ever a Profit? | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...When our treaty with Japan expires on January 26, our relations will have an indefinite basis, and there will be no way of settling such matters as travel, residence, and commercial business." Fairbank explained...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fairbank Warns U.S. Not to Overlook Crisis in Its Far Eastern Relationships | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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