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After squirming through three weeks of committee hearings, Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks has reinstated Allen V. Astin as Director of the Bureau of Standards. But his original decision to fire Astin revealed political pressures on this essentially un political body which return to status quo cannot erase...
...research. The balloons carry Geiger-Müller cosmic ray counters, barographs, automatic radios which send signals to a ground station every 15 seconds, recording the altitude (in terms of air pressure) and the intensity of the cosmic bombardment. Last week Drs. L. F. Curtiss and A. V. Astin reported that one cluster of six balloons had reached the remarkable height of 23 miles (about 120,000 ft.). This was believed to be a world record for sounding balloons...
...Curtiss and Astin found that cosmic rays were thickest twelve miles up, where the intensity is 200 times that at sea level. This agrees closely with the findings of Caltech's famed Robert Andrews Millikan. who sent balloons to 92,000 ft., recorded a cosmic-ray peak...