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...Crile applies electronic interpretations. Dr. Crile last week boldly predicted that during the coming century "the state of activity ... of the body [will be measured by] the relative percentages of the different parts of the [electromagnetic] spectrum emitted by different parts of the body." More within the compass of everyday medical thought was another physiological complex which Dr. Crile described last week. The thyroid, he argued, is a power-house for the body; the sympathetic nervous system carries the power impulses throughout the body; the adrenal glands control the power; and the frontal lobe of the brain, seat of intelligence...
...value in mid-October) is carried by ships out of Canada's new artificial Port of Churchill on Hudson Bay (TIME. Sept. 14, 1931). Last October the 5. S. Bright Fan, out of Churchill with 253,000 bu. of wheat, steered off her course in Hudson Strait, her compass swung untrue by the nearby north magnetic pole. She crashed into an iceberg and went down in three hours in 900 ft. of water. Canadians feared the Bright Fan's end would make Lloyd's drastically step up insurance rates on Churchill cargoes. But last week Canada...
...McCord bent a course eastward to sea; the 70 officers and crew settled down to one more of the Akron's routine training flights. This one was to be most casual-a two-day cruise off the New England coast for calibration of the ship's radio compass; a trifling job compared to the 81-hr. Canal Zone flight from which the Akron had last month returned. Only distinction was the presence aboard of seven guest officers, most notably Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett, chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics, hard-bitten champion of the Navy lighter-than...
...last week. There were a great many mink coats, and gentlemen carrying chamois gloves in their inverted bowlers. On the walls were brilliant, brittle portraits in flat, bright color of very smart people immaculately dressed, and decorative landscapes in which trees and houses were frankly drawn with ruler and compass. Bernard Boutet de Monvel was having his first New York exhibition in five years...
...slide" to a safe landing. But thus far there is no thought of flying passengers into a completely blind field. (Occasionally Eastern Air mail pilots do land by instrument at Newark in fog so thick that on the ground, with no radio functioning, they must taxi their planes by compass...