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...developing one of his plates Anderson saw that he had scored a hit. To the untrained eye there was nothing but a ragged little white line. But to Anderson that line was astounding. It was thin and sketchy like the path of an electron. The particle had obviously traveled upward along the track and not downward, because it was more strongly bent above the lead plate. Also it had curved to the left. In that magnetic field only a positively charged particle could be traveling upward and curving to the left. In all features the particle was the "anti-electron...
Even discounting Mr. Farley's native optimism, the prospects of big Christmas spendings were rosy indeed. Aside from the continuing upward drive of Recovery, there are two good reasons for this rosiness, for both of which Mr. Farley could claim Democratic credit. One is the rising tide of extra dividend declarations, the other the nation-wide movement to raise wages, pay bonuses...
...ready to concede that in one instance, at least, Taxation had done the oil business good. The wonder worker was a particularly painful chain store tax which went into effect in Iowa in June 1935. Upon oil companies owning retail outlets it piled a new levy graduated steeply upward both on gross receipts and number of outlets. By last week it was apparent that this last straw, far from breaking the camel's back, had set it going with the wind. Oilmen trooping into Chicago's Hotel Stevens for the Institute meeting received with indifference the news that...
Basically, however, the upward bound in stock prices last week resulted from the complete removal of uncertainty. The underlying processes of making and selling the nation's goods had passed through the autumn without faltering. The outlook was promising regardless of elections. Businessmen might not like the results but they at least knew now what they were in for. A closer contest, a stronger minority in Congress, might have left room for doubt. While a few soothsayers remained to croak, "Just wait till two years from now," the majority of Wall Street jumped straight aboard the Roosevelt landslide, ready...
When the neck is broken, first-aiders "should gently roll the victim on a plank so that he rests face upward, and under no circumstances with the head tilted forward. This is the best position to prevent movement of the fractured cervical vertebrae...