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...granted. In effect, he has found a catalyst which will quickly, cheaply, thoroughly get CO turned into C02 before it leaves the automobile. The catalyst is placed in the exhaust pipe line. How best to do this, mechanical engineers are now experimenting. Road tests over 1,500 mi. with an improvised mechanism have indicated that the Frazer process is good enough to commercialize...
...kings but rich sportsmen will ride there, hunting foxes instead of stags. They have formed an organization, Southern Grasslands Hunt & Racing Foundation. They plan to raise $3,000,000. Memberships are $10,000 each. In Sumner County, Tennessee, they have bought about 15,000 acres (23 sq. mi.) of land to gallop over-rolling grass country, dotted with farms. They plan an endowment for the land's upkeep in perpetuity. It is the biggest tract made safe for private chasing since King William had his idea about the woods in Hampshire. Workmen are pulling down wire fences, putting...
...General Weygand's ability. Irked at sneering suggestions that he was a mere "Yes Man" to the Marshal, in 1920 he begged and obtained a chance to go to Poland, direct Poland's defense against Soviet invasion. On his arrival Russian troops were only 12½ mi. from Warsaw. Five months later the last defeated Soviet troops were in full retreat. In Paris, proud as a father, Marshal Foch gleefully applauded his success...
...Mackaye says there is an ether. But it is not static like Professor Miller's ether. The MacKaye ether is composed of helter-skeltering radiations. Like light his radiations move in all directions, and with the same velocity (circa 186,000 mi. per sec.). They have a superfrequency and hence a superpenetration. As light goes through glass and X-rays through bodies, his radiations go through everything. They are never at rest. Modifications of them- photons, protons, electrons and possibly other quivering mites of sub-matter not yet recognized-are only slightly less ubiquitous...
...Meteors. Patient count and systematic estimation indicated to Iowa's Charles Clayton Wylie that 24 million meteors enter the earth's atmosphere daily. The dim ones, and almost all are dim, become visible about 75 mi. from earth's surface and burn out quickly. The bright ones explode about 15 mi. up. Relatively few fragments strike land...