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Specifically he was shooting helium atoms (alpha particles derived from radio active thorium) from a shuttered, camera-like box into a tube containing nitrogen and water vapor. The helium atoms traveling at a clip of 11,000 mi. per sec. smashed into the nitrogen atoms. The force of the impact caused the atoms to merge for an instant to form fluorine which immediately broke down, with explosive force, into hydrogen and oxygen...
...motorist, delayed by local traffic, has long wished for, lay behind Bills introduced in the New York legislature last week to incorporate New York & New England Motorways Corp. Proposed was a high-speed, four-track toll boulevard between New York City's northern rim and New Haven, Conn. (85 mi.). Two hundred million dollars private capital would construct, maintain and police the project. All crossroads would be bridged over. The centre roadways, divided by a metal fence, would have a minimum speed limit of 35 m. p. h. Slower traffic would move on the outer lanes...
...years a seafarer, able navigator, last year co-hero with Pilot Roger Q. Williams on his trans-Atlantic flight to Rome (TIME, July 22). The place Capt. Yancey stood ready to fly to was one whither no man had ever flown from the U. S.?a 20 sq. mi. pinprick n the Atlantic, 580 mi. offshore?Bermuda. One little slip in navigating and a plane from shore would shoot by Bermuda out over the boundless wastes of the Atlantic...
Last week the good Stinson monoplane Pilot, the good Pilot William H. Alexander, and Radioman Zeh Bouck, were all ready. Capt. Yancey had much more than 48 hours notice. He got into the plane with them and off they flew. Night found them 60 mi. short of Bermuda over a glassy sea. They descended, floated the swells until dawn, got up again, reached Hamilton Harbor. Their prizes: $1,000 each; publicity for Richfield Oil Co. A sprained pontoon strut prevented their flying home. The significance: when an Armstrong Seadrome (TIME, Oct. 28) is anchored midway, and terminal facilities are improved...
...record in two swoops of his Lockheed Air Express. Last week he set out (with special permission from the Department of Commerce) to cross the continent in a cabin glider towed at the end of a 300-ft. rope behind a power plane. First day he was towed 400 mi., from San Diego to Tucson, with a stop at Yuma and Phoenix. At such way stations he unhooked his "car"' from its "locomotive" and coasted to earth, demonstrating the possibility of air '"trains...