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Heavier than any other element except uranium, protoactinium is radioactive. It is 25% rarer than radium in pitchblende. One ton of that mother ore was reduced to extract a half gram of protoactinium oxide. In a phosgene chlorinating bath this was transposed to a chloride. Using the method evolved by General Electric's famed Irving Langmuir. Dr. von Grosse spread the chloride on a tungsten filament in a vacuum, heated the filament, boiled off the chlorine, obtained his bit of pure protoactinium...
...working girls know nothing about manners and little about anything else. Appalling is the number of complaints she has heard from personnel managers about dirty hands, dirty nails, dirty hair, dirty necks. She found it necessary to get right down to such questions as how often to take a bath (once a day, in summer twice) and how often to change underwear (frequently). Large women should beware of sweaters and even slim girls should wear brassieres with knits...
Known variously and vaguely as "The Richest Man in the World," "The Armaments King," "The Mystery Man of Europe," Sir Basil Zaharoff, Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire and of the Order of the Bath, Doctor of Laws, Oxford, Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor, etc., is one of the most prominent members of the world's unburied dead. Still alive at 86, he retired eight years ago, now lives in senile seclusion on his French estate at Balincourt. To pacifists the single-handed murderer of millions, to Reds a mummified museum-piece of capitalism...
...gold rings for some 250 lire each ($20) to drop into the urns while they hide away their own golden treasures and wear the ugly iron of patriotism. Eight years ago at the watering place of Agnano, the present Emperor of Ethiopia gave a gold ring to his spinster bath attendant. Adele Chierchia, saying, "Let this be your wedding ring when you marry." Still a spinster and still a bathwoman, Adele dropped Haile Selassie's ring last week into one of Benito Mussolini's urns...
...have opportunities to carry out assignments suited to any special interests they may have. Beside the ordinary day's activities, they will cover more unusual events, ranging from boxing matches, through exhibitions of fine chinaware. A predecessor set the pace by an interview with Al Smith ensconced in his bath...