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...more familar name, ether. It is the substance that fills all the spaces among the heavenly planets, among the planets' composite molecules, among the molecules' composite atoms. To do this it must, of course, be a very tenuous and insinuating substance. Capt. See figures it is 47 billion times less dense than hydrogen, the thinnest gas known. Its particles are 4,000 times smaller than hydrogen molecules, (the smallest known). So fast are these particles moving (as shown by the tenuousness of the substance) that they go 23.5 times as fast as the fastest electron (electric particle circling...
With such particles "world gas" is, of course, highly elastic-about 689 billion times as elastic as air, Capt. See figured, in proportion to its density. And this elasticity, which accounts physically for the speed with which light traverses space, coupled with another property, is what (according to See) accounts for gravity and the fixture in space of heavenly bodies such as the earth, the moon, the sun. The other property is the weight of world...
...demand justice of the public .... They should receive from $30,000 to $50,000 annually. The tendency should be, unless the cost of living falls off sharply, to pay the higher sum generally. . . . This nation spends many hundreds of millions a year upon chewing gum and candy ... a half-billion on military and naval aviation since the war. . . billions for pleasure automobiles. Our contention here is that it is not being used to the best advantage...
...Caillaux's attempt to retire between 15 and 20 billion francs of short term "defense bonds" by a 4% "gold loan" (TIME, July 6) has fallen dismally short of expectations. The 67 billion francs of outstanding short term paper has been reduced by less than 5 billion instead of 20. In the event of a panic on these securities, the Treasury and the Bank of France would almost certainly have to take refuge in inflation, which might send the franc crashing to infinitesimals...
...replied, as everyone knows: "A good 5-cent cigar!" Many tobacconists and tobacco consumers have agreed with him. The rise of wages and material prices during the War rendered the former "popular-priced smoke" much more expensive. The result was a drastic curtailment in consumption. In 1917, over 8 billion cigars were consumed in this country. By 1921, the 5-cent cigar had disappeared, and consumption of cigars declined to about 6¾ billion. Even yet, not quite 7 billion cigars are consumed each year. One consequence of the situation has been that cigar-makers alone among tobacco manufacturers have...