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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recorded nothing. A tidal wave? No wall of water had been visible on the surface. Many hours later a northward moving hurricane did bang that part of the Atlantic into a colossal lather, but what manner of hurricane forerunner would travel invisibly beneath the surface? A convulsive bottom current? A ponderous flotilla of mad leviathans? A freak pelagic tide-rip seething in the depths as masses of the Atlantic changed position...
...North American Review, born 1815, and thus the oldest magazine in the U. S., will (with the October issue) become a monthly instead of a quarterly. It will remain an "article" magazine dealing with current events. More sprightliness, timeliness, is promised...
...False. A death shock consists of 1,500 to 2,000 volts of electricity. The resistance of the prisoner's body would not produce 1,000 degrees of heat unless the current were continued for about four and one-half minutes. Because of its high voltage, the death shock does not have to be and is not protracted beyond one and one-half minutes. No great heat is generated in the victim's body in that time...
...with a large "loud-hearer" attached and turned skyward, with an adjustment preventing isolated or in- termittent sounds (thunder, gun shots) from registering. Only the steady hum of an airplane motor affects it. What the microphone hears is amplified 100 million times, the sound then being transformed into electric current capable of throwing the airport's floodlight switch...
...current list of billion-dollar U. S. corporations...