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...Most elements have two or more isotopes. Tin has eleven. Several scientists have predicted that hydrogen, too, simplest of the elements, would be found to have two isotopes. Professor Harold Clayton Urey of Columbia University said last May that he was searching for a hydrogen isotope of weight two. Last week he found it. Co-discoverers were Dr George M. Murphy of Columbia and Dr. Ferdinand G. Brickwedde of the U. S. Bureau of Standards in Washington. Under low pressure Dr. Brickwedde liquefied hydrogen by reducing the temperature. Then he allowed the temperature to rise.' At 437º below zero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Nuclear Secrets | 12/21/1931 | See Source »

Seeking Divorce. Mrs. Virginia Clayton Willys de Aguirre, daughter of U. S. Ambassador to Poland John North Willys; from Luis Marcelino de Aguirre of Buenos Aires, whom she married in 1929; in Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 7, 1931 | 12/7/1931 | See Source »

Biggest Factor. To answer this question the President summoned to the White House Governor Eugene Meyer of the Federal Reserve Board and William L. Clayton of Houston, head of Anderson & Clayton, largest U. S. cotton factors. In 1926 Messrs. Hoover, Meyer & Clayton had worked together to move the record crop out of the country and hold up the domestic price. Mr. Clayton then had his foreign agents induce spinners to buy heavily as a good investment, with the result that 15% of the 1926 crop was moved by the Clayton firm. At last week's White House conference a plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUSBANDRY: Drop-a-Crop | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

...Chartered from stout-hearted George Mallory Fynchon whose Wall Street Firm of Pynchon & Co. failed last April. The Pynchon steam yacht Vasanta is now owned by Clayton W. Morse Jr., who renamed her Clador...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Yachts & Yachtsmen | 8/31/1931 | See Source »

...chief attorney, declared an "unspeakable disaster" would follow the Commission's refusal to renew RCA licenses. His prime legal argument was that Congress meant to put off the air as unfit only those who criminally violated the Sherman Act, not those who merely broke the civil provisions of the Clayton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: RPA v. RCA | 6/29/1931 | See Source »

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