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Arthur B. Emmons will describe the ascent of Mt. Nanda Devi in a free public lecture at the Institute of Geographical Exploration this evening at 8 o'clock...
Outstanding phenomenon of the ascent was the thick and phosphorescent appearance of the balloon ropes at greater elevations. This, Major Stevens explained, was caused by escape of sea level air and water vapor from the fibers of the rigging, at a pressure one-fifth of normal, which formed a foggy cloud around each rope...
Declaring his intention of making another ascent soon, Major Stevens, world's greatest expert on aerial photography and guest lecturer of the University, stated that with a new balloon of volume five million cubic feet he believed a new height of 90,000 feet would be set against the present mark...
...each. Last summer five strings of such balloons, five in each string, were sent up periodically from San Antonio, Tex. to heights of 92,000 ft.(about 17½ miles). When the weakest balloon in the string burst, due to the thinning outside air, the rate of ascent of the other four was checked. When the second bag blew up, the remaining ones hovered practically stationary until a clockwork device released a red parachute and dropped a self-charging electroscope which had been recording cosmic ray intensity all the while. Four of the five electroscopes were recovered, sent...
Meantime, in its ponderous ascent from Depression's slough, U. S. Steel Corp. reported profits of $16,233,000 for the first six months of 1936, about three-fourths of which was earned in the June quarter. From 1931 through July 1936 the Steel Corporation paid out nearly $175,000,000 more than it took in, even though no dividends were declared on the common stock and the preferred dividend was pared from $7 to $2 per share. In the June quarter this year the preferred dividend was fully earned, with enough left over to show earnings...