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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...first time in the current congressional uproar there was last week a small but possibly significant turn in the Prohibition tide. It came when large, benign Representative George Scott Graham of Pennsylvania, 79-year-old Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, announced that he would allow his committee to hold public hearings on seven bills for repeal or modification of the 18th Amendment. The date...
...Institute of Electrical Engineers last week (see below) was Dr. Matthew Luckiesh's presentation of his new General Electric sunlight lamp. The bulb is 6¼ in. long. It contains two separated tungsten electrodes, a little pool of mercury, a tungsten filament. When the electric switch is turned, current heats the filament to incandescence. The heat vaporizes the mercury. The mercury vapor diffuses between the electrodes and permits the current to jump across as a brilliant mercury arc. The combined light of arc, electrodes and filament appears much whiter than Mazda "daylight" bulbs. It produces 40 times as much...
...week in Manhattan it was given to tall, grey-haired Charles Felton Scott, 65, native Ohioan, electrical engineering professor in Yale University. In the field of power transmission his work has been noteworthy; professionally renowned is he for the Scott transformer which changes two-phase to three-phase alternating current...
Friends of seals, friends of penguins were incensed last week at a despatch from Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, commander of Norway's current Antarctic expedition (TIME, Sept. 9). Steaming at tortoise pace on his little ship Norvegia along the rim of Antarctica, Capt. Riiser-Larsen found time and thought hanging heavily. What if his coal should run out? thought he. Forthwith he busied himself with "a little experiment which I think will be of interest to our friends back in civilization...
...concerning the events which are taking place round about him. Nevertheless it is that very opinion which the average citizen does, and must, form which goes to play a subsequent and important role in the making of contemporary life. The task of the citizen faced with the riddle of current events is one of the major problems of democracy...