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...years chief of the field division of the Department of the Interior's general land office at Denver. The public may hear more of Chief Kelley and the Western Colorado oil fields to which he referred, because last week, in submitting his resignation to Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur, he charged that large unnamed oil companies were trying to steal this property from the U. S. Mr. Kelley's letter contained the germ of another national Oil Scandal...
Zaro Agha, Turk, whose passport says he is 156 years old (TIME, March 17), was knocked down and badly bruised by a Manhattan motorist. He was rushed to his hotel where X-ray showed all bones to be intact. Next day he sat up in bed, announced he felt well except for a pain in his stomach, ordered a hotdog and corn- on-the cob, to test a new set of false teeth...
...called "straight-stretch" type of molecule which composes it. Protein molecules of sperm cells are also of the "straight stretch" type. In addition to this structural likeness, there is a likeness of optical behavior. Like crystals, sperm cells break in two the light which passes through them, bending each ray so that two points of light emerge where one entered. This property is noted in living cells and in preserved specimens...
...National Academy of Sciences that he had rechecked this phenomenon of the spectral shift through the Mount Wilson telescope which can see farther into space than any other telescope in the world. Dr. Hubble analyzed 34 nebulae carefully by means of a spectroscope which breaks up a ray of light, shows the different colors of the spectrum which compound it. He found with few exceptions a uniform shift toward the red from the nearest to the farthest nebula, 75 million light years away. For every million-light-years increase in distance from the earth, he discovered...
...There is no question but that the X-ray tubes can be materially improved and made more powerful. We now produce X-rays of from 6,000 to 250,000 volts and, if we went to 400,000 volts, we could get practically radium rays from an X-ray tube. We know results would be better. But we cannot go that high, for we lack tubes to stand it, and so far no one has dared to tackle their development because of the patent monopoly...