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Visible light does not penetrate thick fog, but visible light is only a small segment on the wide spectrum of electro-magnetic radiation. Radiation which is too long in wave length to be seen, called infra-red and embracing wireless waves of all lengths, has the faculty of sliding around obstacles such as fog particles. Therefore an artificial eye which "sees" by infra-red radiation appears to offer the best hope of piercing...
...vast Grand Central Palace (see p. 67), makers almost unanimously anticipated their best year, pooh-poohed Wall Street talk of a major Depression. But, though this week's show in Manhattan marks completion for manufacturers of the crucial business of launching new models, to an equally important segment of the automobile industry-sales and distribution-it is only the beginning. Some 515,000 people are engaged in making automobiles and parts, probably twice that many selling and servicing them. After this week, when carmakers have finished holding their show in Manhattan, car-sellers will hold lesser shows of their...
...volume of deferred payment merchandise sold by department stores was nearly 35% ahead of 1935, while charge account sales were up only 12½% (total department store sales were up 11.8%). Cried Joseph Anton Hagios, N.R.D.G.A.'s bright young German-born credit manager, fortnight ago: "With a growing segment of the buying public mortgaging its future income in installment obligations which will in all likelihood amount to close to 10% of our national income this year, it must be anticipated that the resulting installment debt is certain to have a retarding effect on the future purchasing power of these...
...opinion, needs a Mark Hanna, or a Matt Quay." First declaring that he does not know Republican National Chairman John D. M. Hamilton well enough to surmise whether he has the requisite "iron in his soul'' to ride roughshod over the wishes of this or that segment of his followers, Mr. Michelson indicated his opinion by suggesting another candidate: Herbert Hoover's Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills. "He is a vigorous fellow, with perhaps the best mind among those who entertain the ultra-capitalistic theories. He has, in addition, that quality of autoappreciation which...
...years ago, "conservative" rabbis representing about one-third of 4,228,000 U. S. Jews moved to protect whatever agunahs were in their flocks by permitting them in certain cases to obtain divorces. At that time the agunah question was also before the Orthodox rabbis who rule the largest segment of U. S. Jewry (the inconsiderable remainder, Reform Jews, divorce as they please). Last week at its 32nd annual convention in Atlantic City the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the U. S. and Canada said its final say on the matter. The Union voted overwhelmingly "not to recede one iota...