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...There are in the world today four or five powder magazines and lots of people playing around with matches," said Walter Duranty to Manhattan Republicans. "Japan and Germany are the two most dangerous nations in the world. If you will examine their imports-nickel, nitrate, and other things used in munitions -you will see what I mean. I can't see how an explosion can long be postponed...
...American Fraulein is very beautiful but we notice the great amount paint and . . . what do you say . . . oh yes, lipstick and powder. In Deutschland ein Maedel, a girl of nice family would not even wear the power...
Before he took York, General Pike had promised the British that his men would not burn or sack it. Soon afterward the powder magazine blew up and a flying stone killed General Pike. On the theory that the British had fixed the magazine explosion, the U. S. troops burnt York to the ground. The burning of York was one of the reasons the British gave for their burning of Washington a year later. Three reminders of the York episode still lay last week in a showcase of the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis. They were mace, lion and standard...
Before they could reach that conclusion even with the powerful wave mathematics developed by Germany's Erwin Schrodinger, Drs. George Braxton Pegram, John R. Dunning and Isidor Isaac Rabi had to lead their particles like circus animals through a complex series of hoops & hurdles. Beryllium powder was placed in a glass tube containing the radioactive gas radon. Alpha particles from the radon knocked neutrons out of the beryllium. First hurdle was a metal ring which deflected part of the neutron beam toward a cylindrical detection chamber less than an inch across, a half-inch deep. The chamber...
From the Caroline Islands, that fine powder of islands lying in the West Pacific, the Japanese sampans point southward. They cross the Equator, weave through the maze of the East Indian Archipelago toward Australia's New Guinea and North Australia. In the shallow waters of the Coral Sea along the Great Barrier Reef, 1,000 mi. from home, they find what they want but it is in Australian waters. Long since, the Australian Government has protested to Tokyo via London against their poaching. But Japan had not the heart to discourage such energetic citizens. Last week Australia got ready...