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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...denounced Franklin Roosevelt's. Of the last six issues of Scribner's Commentator, five have contained stories by or about Lindbergh. December's issue had an article by Henry Ford. Other contributors are such famed isolationists as Senators Rush Holt, Worth Clark, Burt Wheeler, General Robert E. Wood...
General Electric Research Laboratories in Schenectady last week unveiled a giant new X-ray machine, 1,000,000 volts strong, the biggest X-ray machine harnessed to industrial research. It is intended to find flaws not in flesh & bone but in big steel castings. G. E.'s 400,000-volt apparatus took an hour to X-ray four inches of steel. The new machine takes less than two minutes...
...machine was centre-staged last week in a sedate jamboree marking the 40th anniversary of G. E.'s first research laboratory. Almost unheard of in 1900 were science laboratories as adjuncts and stimulants of manufacture. Charles Proteus Steinmetz and a G. E. patent lawyer persuaded Edwin Wilbur Rice Jr.-then technical director, later president-to found one. To start it Rice picked Willis Rodney Whitney, a brilliant and forceful young chemistry teacher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
Bred in the academic tradition, Whitney at first ventured only a gingerly toe into the unknown water of industrial research. When he found that he really had a free hand, he took on the G. E. experiment as a full-time job. Things began to hum. The basic experiments of William Coolidge on tungsten, of Irving Langmuir on gas-filled (instead of evacuated) bulbs led to modern electric lamps. The Coolidge and Langmuir experiments also produced high-power X-ray tubes, portable X-ray sets, high-capacity electronic tubes...
Created Lieut. Commander in the Navy and saluted by Secretary Frank Knox as "an old, old friend and one who carries with him a punch in the minds and heads of young men," Gene Tunney, onetime Marine and heavyweight champion of the A. E. F., took charge of physical education at the Pensacola, Jacksonville and Corpus Christi stations...