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...spread out through the transparent substance. Dr. Alexis Pincus of American Optical Co. last week announced, as a result of new X-ray studies of the atomic structure of glass, that 92% of its volume consists of nothing but oxygen caught in the interstices of a relatively scanty framework made of silicon and other elements...
Still more significant was his new theory of the nature of that framework. When molten glass is allowed to cool slowly enough to crystallize, it loses its transparency. Cooled more rapidly, it remains clear. So science has assumed that it is amorphous, a patternless collection of molecules, constituting a sort of stiffened liquid. In fact the classic definition of glass is "a liquid whose rigidity is great enough to enable it to be put to certain useful purposes." Dr. Pincus believes that the structure of glass is neither amorphous nor crystalline but somewhere between, with its atoms symmetrically arranged...
...budget balancers who would throw out the CCC and other New Deal aids to the underprivileged, Congress should realize that wars are won at the supper table and in the dentist's and doctor's office, as well as on the drill fields of Devens. Using the CCC as framework, a series of semi-military camps could be set up to strengthen American youth both for battle and for peace. Anyone rejected for remedial defects should be at once subject to this physical reconditioning. No nations can hope to be strong with half its young men growing up as weaklings...
...revealed the "area of agreement" on "problems of the post-war transition" between 24 leaders in business, Government, labor and agriculture, who met for the Tenth FORTUNE Round Table. Their fundamental agreement: "That the U.S. can find jobs for its defense workers in the post-war period within the framework of the American system, if the country begins to lay plans at once." When the war is over, a majority of the Round Table favored 1) tapering off of war orders, with dismissal wages to aid reemployment; 2) a Government agency to supervise "economic demobilization," continuing as long as necessary...
...providing disability benefits and medical treatment for people on relief. Social Security Chairman Arthur J. Altmeyer calls this "the most important gap in the present framework of Social Security...