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When a new planetoid (or what may be a new planetoid) is discovered, the report is immediately sent to the Astronomisches Recheninstitut in Berlin, whence the news is broadcast to all observatories. When the nature of the new object is uncertain, Professor Armin Otto Leuschner of the University of California at Berkeley often is called upon. Professor Leuschner has developed short mathematical formulae to describe the courses of planetoids and comets. He matches the curves of the new orbits supplied him to the curves of his formulae. Last week he and other astronomers who had checked over his work were...
...During the General Strike of 1926 with Press, telegraphs and telephones silenced, B. B. C. broadcast not only news and Government announcements but railway timetables and essential facts of every sort...
...Despite criticism B. B. C. has broadcast both sides of the Soviet and Indian questions, but St. Gandhi was not heard by British listeners though he broadcast from London to the U. S. and Canada...
...Operas and plays (even Shakespeare's) are cut by B. B. C. as adroitly as possible to a length of 90 minutes, found by experiment to be the ideal maximum length for a broadcast to British listeners...
...Crushing refutation of assertions that British family life is disintegrating" has just been furnished to Sir William Henry Beveridge of the London School of Economics by anonymous answers received to his questionnaire about family life broadcast by B. B. C. last month...