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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because Mr. Roosevelt believes naval power on salt water and electrical power from fresh water will determine the future of the U.S., the power phase of the project now ranks with the navigation phase. To yoke the river's great flow (220,000 cubic feet per second) two huge dams would be thrown up in the International Rapids southwest of Montreal (see cut). Here two titanic stations would harness 820,000 kilowatts of electricity (Grand Coulee: 1,944,000 kilowatts), half for the U.S., half for Canada. Estimated cost of power development only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Seaway: In the Lobby | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

Instead of dosing children with oil (it seems to lose much of its power in the digestive tract), Dr. Gerstenberger injects it into their buttocks. He does not use fish oil, but its essential element-synthetic vitamin D3, dissolved in a cubic centimeter of cottonseed oil. The vitamin is gradually absorbed into the child's blood stream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: End of Rickets? | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

...roster. The founders of the older museums were strong-minded, opinionated, dictatorial men with a curious one-sided sense of public obligation. All the larger American cities had them-mostly new millionaires determined to show that they could bid Duveen more per square inch of canvas and cubic inch of marble or bronze than any European competitor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Moses Speaks | 3/10/1941 | See Source »

Malaria is caused by an amebalike parasite of the genus Plasmodium. The parasite, which enters man's bloodstream through a mosquito bite, often destroys over a million red blood corpuscles per cubic millimetre in one bout of malaria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Malaria Movies | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

declared that his company has produced a successful conducting rubber. Whereas natural rubber has a resistance of 1,000,000,000,000,000 ohms per cubic centimetre, Dunlop's conducting tire rubber records only 30 ohms per c.c., its cable rubber only ten ohms. On how the rubber is made, Engineer Elden was mum. Dunlop Tire & Rubber Corp. has taken out no patents, for patenting would make the details public, but has begun to market its conducting rubber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Technology Notes | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

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