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...allied arts are discussed by Lorado Taft (Sculpture), Bryson Burroughs (Painting), Frederick Law Olmsted (Landscape Design), E. H. Bennett (City Planning), Huger Elliott (Industrial Arts, including bookmaking, ceramics, costume design, furniture, glass, jewelry and lace-making, metal work, textile design), Thomas Whitney Surette (Music...
...amplifying the reactions, a " vibratory rate rheostat" and a "measuring rheostat" for determining the wave rate "ohmage" of the specimen. These are connected to an electrode on the forehead of a healthy human being, called the " re-agent," who stands stripped to the waist and barefooted on two metal grounding plates. The doctor "percusses" the abdomen of the reagent, i.e., thumps the back of his left hand with the middle finger of his right, on which is a weighted thimble. The abdomen normally shows a "line of dullness," below which a hollow sound is elicited. Different diseases in the patient...
...foreign sales of the red metal for September have been about 80,000,000 pounds, compared with average monthly exports of 54,388,912 pounds in 1922 and of 50,740,670 pounds in 1921. Domestic shipments have been good. Average domestic shipments for the first eight months of 1923 have been about 129,000,000 pounds per month, which is a peacetime record for eight months and about 90% above the pre-War record...
Signs are that the British metal industries are recovering. A Colombian order for waterworks and an electric plant valued at about $500,000 was received by one firm. Another received an order for the electrification of the Campos de Jordas Railway in Brazil. The Beardmore Co. of Glasgow reported more orders for locomotives from India. Heavy orders are expected from Japan...
Meanwhile Senator Pittman, author of the Pittman Act, which compels the Treasury in buying silver to replace silver dollars to pay one dollar an ounce for the metal, is still exercised and protesting because the Treasury refuses to buy silver (TiME, June 18). The market price has been hovering at 60 and some odd cents an ounce. Under Secretary Gilbert objects to extravagance. There is talk of an alliance between the farmer and silver groups in the next Congress with a log-rolling slogan: "$1.00 silver, $1.75 wheat...