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...England Power Association proposes to give New England Gas & Electric Association controlling interest in two Plymouth County utilities whose lines are connected with those of New England Gas & Electric subsidiaries in regions around Cape Cod.* In return, New England Power Association will receive important blocks of securities in various subsidiaries which will give it at least 95% control in each case...
...neat experiments and clever machines (see p. 50). There was a burglar alarm which fills a room with ultrashort radio waves, so that a person stepping into the room interrupts the waves and actuates the signal. There was a photoelectric meter which determines the Vitamin D content of a cod-liver oil sample by passing a light beam through...
...panda ever captured alive, safely transported 10,000 mi. from a hollow tree in China's chilly Szechwan Province (TIME, Dec. 7). Opening the hotel windows wide, Mrs. Harkness called for boiling water, proceeded to warm the small creature's nursing bottle of powdered milk, syrup and cod liver...
...Boston's Garden. Obsessed by the idea of a wintersports show in his father's amphitheatre, Walter Brown was foiled by the problem of how to get snow indoors without importing it at prohibitive expense until one day, passing a Boston fish store, he noticed a handsome cod packed in ice that was chopped up so fine it looked like corn snow. The fish dealer's iceman showed him his ice-grinding machine. Walter Brown ordered bigger copies that would grind ice smaller. Last week it took 500 tons of ice fed through grinders to keep...
After a little more than an hour of signals, the recording ceased, and it is believed the balloon fell into the Atlantic Ocean, just inside Cape Cod...