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...Clay County, 1,450 gal. of acid was driven into a well and rammed home with 165 bbl. of crude. The acid fanned out in a 90° arc, increased the yield of six adjoining wells in addition to the one treated. In ten months production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Testers & Acid Doctor | 7/12/1937 | See Source »

...photographs, and that such density is not a mere irregularity of distribution but a cosmic entity. Although the great cloud is 100,000,000 light-years from Earth, beyond the reach of all but the most powerful telescopes, it stretches across nearly one-fourth of the sky's arc from horizon to horizon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Great Cloud | 7/12/1937 | See Source »

...Before Mediation. John Lewis' chief lieutenant for the steel war, Chairman Philip Murray of the Steel Workers' Organizing Committee, had gone to Washington early in the week to confer with Secretary of Labor Perkins on the idea of appointing a Federal mediation board. She, a Joan of Arc to many a worker, was eager to do so, but Franklin Roosevelt had wanted to give Ohio's Governor Davey a chance to bring peace locally, as Michigan's Murphy had done in the motor strikes. Meantime, while Governor Martin Davey tried and failed, Franklin Roosevelt personally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Steel Front | 6/28/1937 | See Source »

Reported Dr. Stokley by wireless: "The whole scene had a peculiar hue as if illuminated by an arc light. . . . The camera was grinding and the ocean was getting darker, but I could not notice any definite shadow on the sea. Then I heard the whistle blown by the ship's carpenter as a sign that totality had begun. Overhead appeared the brilliantly clear, greyish-black disk of the moon and around it the sun's corona. At least seven prominent streamers were apparent, as well as several smaller ones. The longest extended about twice the moon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: No Complaints | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

...Freeman believed "to talk about God, you must first create an image, and then talk about the image you have created"; that Dr. Freeman in his book Social Psychology, had reported that "St. Paul's source of influence may be attributed to epileptic fits, and Joan of Arc's to hysterical attacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Privacy | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

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