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Lord Rayleigh, distinguished English physicist, son of a former Chan cellor of Cambridge University, published a new estimate of the antiquity of the earth, of between two and three billion years, based on a study of the rate of decomposition of radioactive elements. This is vastly greater than any previous estimate, modern geologists having ranged between 100,000,000 and 1,600,000,000 years in their conjectures. All these estimates rest upon very slender assumptions, but that the age of the earth is to be reckoned in hundreds of millions of years is a scientific certainty. Lord Rayleigh...
...last year; the European countries, even including Russia, are showing greater production. The American Farm Bureau Federation estimates the American wheat crop this year at 817,000,000 in addition to a carry-over from the last crop of about 140,000,000 bushels, or almost a billion bushels all told. Our home consumption, including seed wheat, and our exports for the coming year are estimated by the same authority as about 800,000,000 bushels...
...London, March and April, 1921: German debt further reduced to 132 billion gold marks...
...London, May, 1921: Germany accepted total of 132 billion and agreed to financial reforms...
...Paris, March, 1922: Sir Robert Home, Chancellor of the British Exchequer, proposed 45 billion gold marks as the negotiable part of the German debt...