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...worked out with the tightest squeeze a three-inch bridge clearance at Buffalo. The big disk goes by New York Central to Cleveland; by Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis to St. Louis; by Chicago, Burlington & Quincy to Kansas City; by Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe to Pasadena, Calif. There in Caltech's laboratories, where a huge grinding machine has been set up, it will spend some three years acquiring the ideal paraboloid curve in its face. Some time before 1940 it will be installed in its telescope on Palomar Mountain in Southern California...
...field is strongest near the poles and weakest at the Equator, so is the cosmic ray bombardment strong or weak with changing latitude. Later a longitude differential was found. Last week, with intensity figures for electroscopes carried on nine ships sailing the seven seas. Robert Andrews Millikan, Caltech's cosmic ray luminary, told the academicians that the rays are stronger in India and the Eastern Hemisphere generally than in the Western, interpreted this to mean that Earth, as a magnet, is lopsided...
California. Fossils of two extinct species were found for the first time on the Pacific slope. One, announced by Dr. Chester Stock of Caltech, was a titanothere -a vegetarian mammal of 30,000,000 years ago, larger than an Indian elephant, which grew a preposterously thick and spreading horn from its snout and browsed with its lips because its front teeth were useless. The other fossil was the skull of a 20-ft. whale which 15,000,000 years ago had a three-foot beak. It was discovered by University of California undergraduates while doing field work in entomology...
...years cosmic rays have made a pother in the scientific news. Hardly less of a pother has Caltech's famed Robert Andrews Millikan made by his controversies with colleagues who did not see his cosmic ray theories as he did. By last fortnight Dr. Millikan had decided that laymen interested in cosmic rays were being hopelessly confused by the tangle of-fact and conjecture reported by numerous researchers...
...Caltech's Robert Andrews Millikan's belief that he expects the cosmic ray mystery to be solved within a year, advising laymen and teachers not to accept current findings as true until checked by several observers...