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...London Economic Conference last July the world's silver countries entered into a four-year silver agreement (TIME, July 31). Of the great silver holding countries China promised not to melt down any coin; India, not to sell more than 35,000,000 ounces per year; Spain, not to sell more than 5.000.000 ounces. The silver-producing countries agreed to buy up 35.000.000 ounces per year and keep it off the market. The U. S. quota for silver purchases was set at 24,421,410 ounces, practically the present amount of annual U. S. production...
...from between the bricks with air drills and then to replace defective material with a substance of an improved type. The new material is believed to be a mortar mixed with paraffin which is placed in the cracks and then heat applied by coal burners in an effort to melt the wax which, they hope, will then spread around the bricks and form a protective film against the driving of the rains...
Every year for seven years Father Hub-bard has gone to explore this lurid peninsula, accompanied by three or four husky footballers. He has burned off his shoes scrambling up the sides of volcanoes which other scientists had thought extinct, has gone down inside them to find he could melt copper twelve inches below the lava surface. Marooned by storms, he has used his sled dogs for food. In 1930 he took the first pictures of Aniakchak; the next year, with a pilot, he made the first airplane flight over it (narrowly escaping death when air currents rushing into...
...Calif., darted last week into the world's most powerful sun-ray concentrator. Designed by Astronomer George Ellery Hale of Mt. Wilson Observatory, this "sun furnace" is 15 ft. long, has more than 30 lenses. When the rays reached the final focussing point, they were hot enough to melt a steel wire like an icicle in a frying...
...speech, wears old-fashioned stiff collars, voluminous cravats, striped trousers, heavy black coats. His round, Pickwickian cheeks dimple with smiles and he trains his frizzy grey hair to stand out in Dickensian tufts at the sides of his bald head. But his tongue is his greatest member. Trial juries melt before him. At Prague three years ago he reduced 7,000 Czechoslovakians to tears. On the platform he grows warmly evangelical about anything from the psychology of prison reform to the beauties of rare glass. A good though less vociferous friend of his is Professor Raymond Moley, another "Ohio...