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...with Leyden, Berlin and Toronto in the matter of liquefying helium (after hydrogen most volatile of gases) and keeping it liquid-a scientific feat first accomplished 23 years ago. The jubilant men who did it were staff members of the U. S. Bureau of Standards-Drs. George Kimball Burgess (director), Hobert Cutler Dickinson and Ferdinand Graft Brickwedde and two aides. In cylinders stout enough to withstand the tremendous expansion of gases they compressed air to liquid ( - 310º F.). Liquid air helped liquefy hydrogen ( - 432.4º F.); liquid hydrogen helped freeze helium to a colorless liquid...
...Director Burgess' current interest in extreme cold is the antithesis of his preoccupation with extreme heat at the beginning of his scientific career. That was while he was studying with Henry Louis Le Chátelier in Paris. In 1901 he accomplished four things: Earned his Sc. D.; translated Le Chatelier's High Temperature Measurements with additions; published Recherches sur la constants de Gravitation; and took Suzanne Babut across the Atlantic to his home at Newton. Mass, for a New England marriage...
Because W. Randolph Burgess of the New York Federal Reserve Bank is wise in the ways of the money market, Undersecretary Mills called him in to help determine just how the Treasury should borrow this huge sum with the least disturbance to public credit. Mr. Burgess brought word that the New York bond market, having recovered from its first Bonus scare, was ripe for a U. S. notation. Mr. Mills agreed; the Treasury would put part of its offering in bonds...
Died. Professor John William Burgess, 86, political scientist, Civil War veteran, founder in 1880 of Columbia University's School of Political Science and dean until 1912 of its faculty, first Roosevelt Professor of American History and Institutions (1906-07) at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin; in Brookline, Mass...
...catch the disease when very young, and hence the desirability of providing for these untainted ones; 8) leprosy is being cured; 9) money is needed to hasten cures, to further research, and to care for segregated lepers; 10) the Leonard Wood Memorial for the Eradication of Leprosy (Perry Burgess, president), which organized last week's cruise, needs such money for the work in the Philippines. For its effect on morale the cruising experts advised Society to abandon the horrific term "leper" to substitute the softer term "case of leprosy...