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Lightning is a serious menace to electrical apparatus. Temperamentally it is unsuited to laboratory experimentation. One cannot lasso the lightning and cage it in a condenser for study at leisure. But the General Electric Company can now make it to order. Last week Physicist Frank William Peek Jr. announced in...
Inasmuch as the Yale Student Council and the Yale undergraduates cannot strike a happy medium between Faculty supervision and no supervision, it might be pointed out that the former as practiced at Harvard is certainly the lesser of two evils. While it is generally admitted that the Faculty of any...
Rayon (artificial silk*) means ray in French. Last week, Courtaulds, Ltd.† world's largest rayon manufacturers, estimated to control 80% of the world's trade, declared a 100% stock dividend, nominally worth ?12,000,000 and a 25% cash dividend, tax free, for the year.
The rayon announcement was made after the end of the stock market day in London; the next morning, before the Exchange opened (the London outdoor curb market keeps the hours it pleases), the curb brokers on Throgmorton Street, unshaven and madly perturbed, bid the shares up from a little above...
Utility. These artificial radium rays left the tube in quantities naturally obtainable from a ton of radium. That much radium has not yet been produced. If it existed, at present prices it would be worth $56,000,000,000. The uses of so much energy are unfortellable.