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...Laclede Gas Light Co. (St. Louis), an operating subsidiary of Promoter Harley L. Clarke's Utilities Power & Light. In registering a $3,000,000 bond issue with the Trade Commission, Laclede directors had signed a sworn statement that no suits were pending against the company which would affect the new bonds' value. After the issue had been distributed, the Trade Commission stumbled on the fact that there were rate cases pending against Laclede in Missouri courts...
...Such plays don't have much effect on the government," said Mr. Gaxton. "Both our plays have been produced at opportune times, so naturally they were successful. But they did not affect the administration in any way the administration that 'Of Thee I Sing' was satirizing was so used to ridicule that one play more or less didn't make much difference...
...fundamental constant" is apparently a variable. Nineteenth Century theorists supposed that light was propagated through space by an all-pervading ether. The late great Albert Abraham Michelson, first U. S. Nobel Prizewinner in Science, reasoned that if this ether existed, then the motion of the earth through it should affect the velocity of light. In 1887 he and Edward W. Morley rigged up an interferometer, raced two beams of light against each other, one parallel to the earth's motion, the other perpendicular. The two beams arrived at their common destination at the same instant. This historic experiment discredited...
...ascertain, waiting does not affect the academic work of the students. I am told by the management that a system is used whereby a waiter can put on a substitute for any time in which his academic work needs special attention, and I believe that this system accounts for the general feeling that the waiting does not interfere with academic work, or vice versa...
...laboratory at the University of Alabama's medical school, Professor Allan Walker Blair, 33, has discovered that the "black widow" spider's poison kills rats and mice, makes guinea pigs sick, does not bother dogs and cats. He has long wondered how it would affect human beings. Last week he found...