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Second, the Chancellor proposed a direct blow at the landed Nobility & Gentry, a tax of one penny on each pound of the capital value of their broad acres? i. e., a Socialist "capital levy" on land of slightly less than ½%-Legislation to this end will require at least two years to become effective, since nationwide assessments must be made...
With two fatal accidents involving the Harvard Flying club happening in the short space of ten days it appears that aviation has again taken a hard blow and intercollegiate flying circles especially will suffer. No parent seeing the blaring headlines of students crashing to the ground will readily become airminded to the extent that sonny will be allowed to go up in the near future. Until a fool-proof ship has been designed and put on the market, sonny must remain on the ground; while father uses the airplane in his business...
Additional validity of the Gushing hypothesis lay in the fact that the cause of gastric ulcers has been unknown. Simple acute gastric ulcer occurs more often among young anemic women, chronic ulcer in men. Especially prone to the ailment are housemaids and shoemakers. Ulcers may occur after a blow in the region of the stomach. Anemia predisposes, especially in women. The disease may be found in connection with diseases of the heart, arteries, liver, gall-bladder and appendix. The present tendency is to charge infections, especially of the teeth and tonsils, as the probable cause of stomach ulcers. A deeper...
Then there are standard quarts and bushels, standard tin cans and hotel dishes, machines which weigh an electron, others which weigh bridges. They bend steel girders at the bureau and blow up steel tanks. One device, an interferometer, indicates how far a 40-in. brick wall is deflected by the pressure of one hand. They have an ultramicrometer which measures a movement of one-millionth part of an inch. But it is "too sensitive for any known...
Graf over Egypt. Because the British Government was understood to object to the Graf Zeppelin flying over Egypt in its Mediterranean cruise of 1929, Dr. Hugo Eckener then tactfully let "unfavorable winds" blow the dirigible away from that course. Last week, however, the Graf flew to Cairo and the Holy Land not only with full British approval, but with Squadron Leader R. S. Booth of the British dirigible R-100 among its 25 passengers.* Arriving over Cairo a half-day ahead of schedule the Graf commander learned by radio that mooring preparations were not complete. He circled the city, dipped...