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...thermometer, improved but unchanged in principle, is still in general use. It necessitates a separate operation for every depth at which the temperature is obtained. Thus ocean students were excited last week when Professor Carl Gustaf Arvid Rossby, head meteorologist of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, reported that he and two associates had devised an instrument which would record a complete temperature gradient from the surface to a maximum depth...
There is no real majority in the Andra Kammaren (Lower House) at Stockholm, any more than there is one in the Chamber of Deputies at Paris. But Swedes are naturally less prone to sudden topplings down of Governments than Frenchmen. The previous Cabinet (Conservative) of Admiral Arvid Lindman, who was forced out fortnight ago (TIME, June 9), had remained in office for 20 months although out of 230 deputies in the Andra Kammaren only 73 are Conservative...
Defeated in both houses of the Riksdag on its proposal to boost the tariff on imported wheat, Sweden's cabinet, headed by conservative Admiral Arvid Lindman, sent in its resignations last week...