Word: californias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three major centres of world research in cryogenics are: the University of Leyden in Holland, Oxford University in England, the University of California in the U. S. In California the work is directed by handsome, dapper William Francis Giauque, who first devised the method of cooling magnetic salts closer to absolute zero than had previously been done. His method makes use of the principle that magnetization heats matter, demagnetization chills it. After preliminary cooling with liquid helium, the salt is magnetized, the heat thus generated drawn off into a jacket filled with helium vapor; then demagnetization pushes the substance down...
...long bed. Eight years ago, Los Angeles' Dr. Alvia Brockway decided to try a scientific Procrustean operation on his patients, who, cured of infantile paralysis or tuberculosis of the hip, hobbled about with one leg shorter than the other. Last week he announced in California and Western Medicine that of 75 operations performed in the Orthopaedic Hospital, 90% were successful...
Modest, soft-spoken Dr. Brockway, son of a California rancher, refuses all requests to make short men tall by stretching both legs, says that he will not perform a serious operation on mere grounds of personal vanity...
...minimum pay schedules range from a low of $8 for choral group singers on a 15-minute broadcast in California to a high of $25 for soloists on a full-hour show in New York or on a national network. It also provides: a limit on rehearsal time (maximum 8 hours for a 60-minute broadcast); extra pay for rehearsal overtime; pay for auditions. The contract recognizes A. F. R. A. as exclusive bargaining agency for sustaining artists in the cities affected (New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco), establishes a modified closed shop.* guarantees that origination point of network...
...Dudley, England. Because she was about to become a mother England's No. 1 woman player did not play at Wimbledon this year. England's No. 1 man player, Bunny Austin entered although he was about to become a father, lost in the finals to California's Donald Budge (TIME, July...