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...treaty-bound U. S. Navy cannot start building another battleship before 1936. Its new 10,000-ton cruisers with 8-in. guns-light, swift, hard-hitting war machines-are the pride of its modern fleet. In the last 30 months eight of these vessels (Salt Lake City, Pensacola, Chicago, Augusta, Northampton, Chester, Houston and Louisville) have been commissioned. Seven more (New Orleans, San Francisco, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, Portland, Astoria, and Tuscaloosa) are abuilding. Three others are still in blue prints...
...Bethlehem Steel Corp. (violin, organ) ; Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes ("Melody in A Major"); President William Hartman Woodin of American Car & Foundry ("Raggedy Ann's Sunny Songs"); Professor Albert Einstein (violin). Banker James Paul Warburg (pseudonym, Paul James) writes lyrics to the jazz tunes of his wife, Kay Swift, whose "Fine & Dandy" was a Broadway smash hit last autumn...
...that matter to meet individual conditions among shippers. Efforts to cross-examine Mr. Scandrett about wages were shut off by Commissioner Meyer on the ground that the Railway Labor Board and not the I. C. C. had jurisdiction on pay scales. Mr. Cole, representing all southern carriers, pleaded for swift action by the I. C. C., asked that no exceptions be made for certain commodities lest the hearings degenerate into "an ordinary rate case." Said he: "The doctor will arrive only to find the patient dead." All three rail presidents plumed themselves on the fact that they had not asked...
Unable to deal with Cities Service by other means, Governor Woodring last fortnight made a swift move. Without warning, the Kansas Banking Commission ordered the sale of Cities Service stocks (except for the first preferred) to be halted in the State. Mr. Doherty at once obtained a temporary injunction against this, sought to make it permanent. But utility men throughout the land shuddered at the thought of what the suspension-weapon would mean if widely used. Governor Woodring hinted that he might throw the Cities Service companies into receivership for having "perverted and abused their power." The fight...
...experiments, the x-rays bounced off the collection of atoms which were the crystal. They rebounded in a peculiar way. The more glancing their blow at the crystal, the longer the x-rays became. That indicated that x-rays were pellets moving with stupendous rapidity. They were like a swift flow of cue balls glancing off the triangle of balls. For his experiments Professor Compton won a 1927 Nobel Prize...