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...Debye has done powerful work on the conduction of electricity by salt solutions, the electrical properties of insulators, the heat capacities of solids, the atomic architecture of molecules. He was one of four men who turned the crystal diffraction grating invented by Max von Laue into a precise instrument which, by combing X-rays through the atomic lattice in the crystal, determines the composition of a mixture as exactly as by chemical analysis. In Pittsburgh last September Chemist Debye pointed out to the American Chemical Society that water has a quasi-crystalline structure, therefore resembles a diamond more closely...
...Librarians have wondered for years why the leather bindings of books in frequent use last longer than those which are rarely called for. Experiments by Chemists R. W. Frey and C. W. Beebe of the U. S. Department of Agriculture convinced them that salt from sweaty hands acts as a preservative...
Deserting his family's potent American Smelting & Refining Co.. M. Robert Guggenheim Jr., 25-year-old nephew of one-time Ambassador to Cuba Harry F. Guggenheim, closed up his Salt Lake City house, went to Hollywood, took a job as call boy for Selznick International Pictures...
Though the disputed 40,000 square miles is still mainly jungle, it could be cultivated, could produce spices, salt, rubber, cotton if Ecuador and Peru can ever decide which country owns which square miles...
Election. When Salt Lake City's Orval Adams demanded a bankers boycott of Government bonds in New Orleans last year, he was elected by acclamation to the post of A. B. A. second vice president, which meant that he would be moved up automatically to first vice president this year, president in 1937. At San Francisco last week there was a brief attempt to prevent Banker Adams from moving up in the regular line of succession. When elections came round, however, not a murmur arose against either Mr. Adams or the hand-picked banker nominated to succeed...