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...Henry Askew Barton of the American Institute of Physics pointed out the possibilities for cancer therapy. Instead of inserting costly radium capsules into malignant tumors, doctors may soon use substances made radioactive artificially...
...light. Worse, they were not irregular but seemed to occur in well-defined rhythms. There was one cycle of 14¾ days, another of about a year, another apparently following the tides of the ocean. And at 9 p. m. every night something happened which threw the tests entirely askew. Dr. Pease and Assistant Pearson did not say flatly that the speed of light could no longer be regarded as a constant. "The observed irregularities," they said, "are unexplained and their elucidation apparently will require more sensitive apparatus." Albert Einstein, at Princeton's Insti tute for Advanced Study, foresaw...
Director Vidal's two closest competitors became his first aides. Big-framed Major J. Carroll Cone, in charge of air regulation, was a War Pilot, a onetime manufacturer of planes. Rex Martin, directing air navigation, has beetling black Groucho Marx eyebrows and a Mexican bandit mustache, slightly askew, which disguise a gentle, genial manner. His appearance last week was even more arresting because of a towering metal-&-leather collar which holds together a neck broken in a crash last September near Washington. Director Vidal was in the plane before it took off, decided...
...week, Industrial Recovery Administration Administrator General Hugh Samuel Johnso, U. S. A. retired, was to be found among a prodigious litter of waste paper and Old Gold cigaret butts in a little cubicle on the third floor of Washington's new colossal Department of Commerce building. His clothing askew, his eyes bloodshot for want of sleep, he was receiving fidgety and excited businessmen at the rate of 100 per day. Occasionally he would pick up a telephone, perhaps to bark, as he did to Motormaker Roy Dikeman Chapin (Hudsons), Hoover Secretary of Commerce: "I've been listening...
...milling, jostling, sweating crowd choked the corridors of the Senate Office Building. Men in white linen suits, women with hats askew and hair straggling damply into their eyes, fought to get into a stifling room long since jammed to the doors. The room was that of the Senate Committee on Banking & Currency. Within was beginning the Biggest Show of its kind in recent memory: not only the public examination of the House of Morgan, but the personal appearance of the almost legendary figure who is its chief- John Pierpont Morgan...