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...Other merchandisers of tear gas: Pacific Arms Corp., San Francisco; Certified Burglar Alarm System, Detective Publishing Co. and Lachyrite Corp., Chicago; Manville Mfg. Co., Pontiac, Mich.; Diebold Safe & Lock Co., Canton, Ohio; Lake Erie Chemical Co., Cleveland; Duncan Chemical Co., Manhattan...
...Canton, Ohio, anti-strike sentiment quickened when the chamber of commerce polled 6,465 steel workers by mail. Three clergymen employed to count the returns reported 3,633 votes for returning to work, 216 for continuing the strike, a majority, although 2,516 ballots were cast out as palpable forgeries, not being printed on the same paper or with the same perforations as those mailed...
...tiny Canton Island, near the sunrise end of the shadow path, confused frigate birds came in from the sea when darkness fell. In Peru, at the sunset end, bats flitted around the fast-working scientists. Radio crews of NBC at Canton Island and of CBS in Peru were able to broadcast lyrical descriptions. The sun's corona was almost circular, a form associated with the high sunspot activity currently manifested by the sun. Exulted white-thatched Clyde Fisher of Manhattan's Hayden Planetarium : "This was the most beautiful of four totalities I have observed...
...been prophesying eclipses for 26 years. Dr. Robertson now believes the "X factor" to be a resultant of three irregularity cycles, one of a lunar month, one of eleven to 13 months, the third varying over a long period up to 70 years. According to first reports from Canton Island, Dr. Robertson's time predictions for that spot, allowing for the "X factor," had hit the actual eclipse times on the nose...
...Japanese, three U. S. Pan American-Grace Airways, Inc. lent an airliner to take a group of observers up 30,000 ft. into the crystal clarity of the substratosphere. At the other end of the eclipse path, the National Geographic Society-U. S. Navy Expedition set up camp on Canton Island in the Phoenix group, inhabited mainly by millions of rats (descended from shipwrecked ancestors). This party was equipped with a new material for measuring the polarization of the coronal light, a newly invented spinning filter for taking improved pictures of the corona, air conditioning equipment to keep the film...