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...Chemist W. M. Cohn of Berkeley, Calif, described the solar furnace invented in Germany which he uses for high-temperature work. It consists of a coelostat (flat mirror geared to follow the sun) which feeds the rays into a concave reflector whence they are sharply focused on the substance under treatment. Dr. Cohn uses the sun furnace to make a clear, yellowish, glassy lining for kilns out of zirconium oxide. A half-minute under the reflector melts the oxide at 4,850° F. Higher temperatures than this have been obtained in electric furnaces, but Dr. Cohn believes that...
Columbia. Columbia was the only major film company to show steady Depression profits. Last fiscal year it earned a whopping $9.91 per share on its common stock. Having considered these facts, the Brothers Cohn, President Harry and Vice President Jack, last week announced plans to issue 75,000 shares of no-par preferred stock paying $2.75. Part of the three or four million dollars thus raised will be used to retire a small outstanding issue of $3 preferred, the rest added to working capital. Next week, also, the Cohns will ask stockholders to approve a 50% stock dividend...
Trim, energetic President Harry Cohn, who runs the production end of the business, knows his studio as do few producers. Driving to work in the afternoon in one of his three Rolls-Royces, he stays at his desk until 2 or 3 next morning. A desk-pounding, finger-snapping executive, he has nevertheless learned the wisdom of giving a good director like Frank Capra his head...
Last week the Brothers Cohn were pleased to learn that the Italian Fascist Party had awarded its prize for the most artistic foreign film to Columbia's No Greater Glory...
...hers. According to President Percilla Lawyer Randolph of the Women Lawyers, it is common practice for a teacher to divorce her husband, keep on living with him. By working fast a teacher can go through marriage and divorce before her school board gets around to dismissing her. Said Felice Cohn, Nevada's only woman lawyer: "An appalling number of women teachers come to Nevada for 'convenient' divorces. Five of them came on the day I left Reno. Four of them told me they wanted such divorces. Most of them intend at some time to remarry their divorced...