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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three major layers, said Dr. Berkner, the lowest (E) averages 65 miles high, the next (F1) 130 miles, the uppermost (F2) 190 miles. In summer the densities of these three, from top to bottom, are 16,000,000 ions, 5,300,000 ions and 2,800,000 ions per cubic inch. During the present sunspot cycle ionization has increased about 50% in the E and F1 layers, about 200% in the high F2 layer. Almost all the ionization in the lower layers seems due to radiation, but Dr. Berkner believes that much ionization in the F2 layer is caused...
...cubic inch of dry ice makes 450 cu. in. of gaseous carbon dioxide if the gas is free to expand at atmospheric pressure...
Over 1,216½ acres of what had been for years either swamp or unregenerate dump heap, squads of workers have been plowing and digging 24 hours a day since last June. Their job is to transfer about 7,000,000 cubic yards of ashes from the ash dunes of Flushing and Riker's Island to the swamps nearby, leveling off and grading a Fair ground. By day the dust clouds of their operations can be seen from the offices of the World's Fair Corporation designers on the 80th floor of the Empire State Building four miles...
...prehistoric migration from Asia. Last summer he brought back great quantities of weapons, household utensils, stone lamps, plates, amulets, skeletons. Last week the Smithsonian Institution announced that among this material had been found the largest skull ever recorded on the Western Hemisphere. The cranial capacity was 2,005 cubic centimetres. Average for modern man is 1,450 cc. World record is still held by the great Russian Novelist, Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883), with...
Yukon Gold was founded in 1907 as part of the Guggenheim's gold mining ventures. In the Federated Malay States, it and two subsidiaries hold properties estimated to contain 72,151,000 Ib. of tin. Because the deposits are alluvial, they can be "dredged." Each cubic yard of dredged earth yields about half a pound of metal. Annual output of the company varies according to quotas set every three months by the International Tin Committee. Bases of the cartel allowances, which apply to about 90% of the world's production, are 1929 outputs. In 1935, working...