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...improvement in civilian flying and continued betterment in military and scheduled airline flying. On scheduled lines there was one fatality for every 19,346 passengers carried, against one in 17,396 in 1930, 3,314 in 1928. The air traveler need not expect to be killed before his 20,000th flight. On a passenger-mile basis he is reasonably certain of flying 4,600,000 mi. safely. It is still, statistically, 100 times as hazardous to fly on regular airways as to take a train but only four times as dangerous as riding in an automobile. Including one absent-minded...
...different story if an amateur pilot invites you for a cross-country hop in his plane. By the law of averages you would be dead before your 4,000th flight- five times as dangerous as scheduled airline flying. Contrary to popular opinion it is a trifle less dangerous to take sight-seeing flights or air taxis than to fly by transport plane, largely because "joy hops" are very short. Scheduled flights average between two and three hours, nonscheduled one-half to one hour...
...call Element No. 85 ?a halogen with fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine?alabamine, after the State whose Polytechnic Institute at Auburn he has headed for ten years. As scientific tender for this request, he last week reported that he had concentrated the relatively vast amount of 1/400,000th of a gram of alabamine in combination with lithium, light-weight brother of fugitive virginium. The pinch of new compound may well be termed a second cousin of common kitchen salt...
...from their gun. By means of a cloud chamber they are now able to see and photograph the stream of protons from their machine. The effect looks like a stubby shaving brush with bristles 1.6 in. long. Each bristle is the path made by a proton only one 10,000th of null millionth of an inch in diameter...
Newly perched last week on the desk of His Majesty King George sat the 2,000,000th telephone installed in Great Britain...