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...extricate the bags from the flames, the mail is surely lost, there being no perfected means of dumping the bags in flight in an emergency.* Post Office officials eyed with interest an experiment begun last week by National Air Transport and Railway Express Agency, with a fireproof and heat-proof cargo pouch developed by Johns-Manville Corp. This new bag was said to withstand a fire hot enough to melt sheet-metal and fuse pipes, without allowing even the sealing wax on letters inside to soften...
...provoke a social industrial revolution. Last week James Ramsay MacDonald was said to be on pins & needles lest the Ford survey soon to begin in London and in Manchester, should prove that a shilling is worth more in one of those English cities than in the other. Inevitably such proof would rouse the British Labor Party to all kinds of imperative demands upon the Prime Minister which he dare not face. At Scot MacDonald's urgent request, the Ford investigators will probably announce their English findings on the basis of an average struck between the Manchester shilling...
...drugs only to those manufacturers who had proved to his Administration that they sincerely wished to sell only such pure, safe drugs. His staff inspected manufacture as frequently as they could. Congress did not supply him with sufficient money to hire the vast staff he really required for fool-proof supervision of all foods, drugs and insecticides.* He was obliged to compromise for expediency, to trust the manufacturers' probity. The ergot extractors to whom he released substandard crude ergot were trustworthy. All the ergot extract which left the manufacturers was legally pure and obstetrically safe; but practically every extract...
Rare example of a depression-proof industry was shown by reports that American Chicle Co., gum-makers, would do as well as last year...
...finer and finer analyses, man has broken down Matter from molecules, to atoms, to immaterial "particles" of radiation. No more paradoxical seems the new Einstein theory that Space is the stuff of which Matter is made, that Space is "solid." Surest proof for this, one which Dr. Einstein hopes to have accomplished, is to derive the elements of Matter (electrons, protons, photons) from Space...