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...counters, or ionization tubes which detect the arrival of cosmic ray particles. On the shelves below the counters are eight radio tubes. Connected to the counters and tubes is a light, compact short-wave radio transmitter with an aerial. When the apparatus is attached to a balloon and sent aloft, passage of the cosmic rays through the Geiger counters will be transmitted to the men on the ground through their short-wave receiving set, will be recorded on a slender tape. Disappearance of the apparatus after the balloons burst will be no great loss, for the scientists will have...
...Maxwell, Texas' Randolph, Kelly, Brooks and Duncan, Illinois's Chanute and Scott, Colorado's Lowry, Washington's Fort Lewis, California's March and Hamilton. At a radio signal from President Roosevelt in the White House, the planes at all these fields roared forward, swept aloft, joined each other in droning, hammering formations, swung in wide arcs over many cities to show U. S. civilians and taxpayers what their nation's wings look like and how they can fly. The length of the Pacific Coast, civilians were organized into a "listening network" to detect...
...last-in 1893, has forgotten Frederick William MacMonnies' Columbian Fountain. It was the largest fountain in the world. Its plaster excrescences shone in the palace-girt Court of Honor. All Victorian eyes viewed it with admiration no less for its artistic beauties than because it showed: "Columbia sitting aloft on a Barge of State, heralded by Fame at the prow, oared by the Arts and Industries, guided by Time at the helm, and drawn by seahorses of Commerce. . . . Horns of Plenty pour their abundance over the gunwales. . . . In the basin of the fountain four pair of seahorses, mounted...
Representative Martin Smith of Washington waved aloft $5,400,000,000 as the first year's yield from a 2% retail sales tax and 2% gross revenue tax on producers, wholesalers, etc., to be divided among 8,000,000 non-working pensioners over 60 who would spend $56.26 each per month...
...crowd waited motionless, expecting more. No more came. The President, still smiling, turned away and entered his car on the arm of Military Aide "Pa" Watson. On the face of a smiling Marine captain, holding his small son aloft to wave goodby, the smile froze...