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Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. Roosevelt, whose U. S. popularity is higher than her husband's in current polls, last week went into type on her own account. While her husband was catching what-for from the Senate on his foreign policy, in circumstances not dissimilar to Woodrow Wilson's 1919 dilemma (see p. 12), Mrs.Roosevelt wrote: "As far as possible I never discuss questions of partisan politics...
Part of this huge defense expense may be met through a "profit" which the Government last week arranged to obtain by revaluing its gold. Introduced by Sir John Simon in the House of Commons was a bill to allow the Government to revalue each week, at the current market price, the gold holdings of the Bank of England. Since Britain went off the gold standard in 1931 this gold has been carried at the old parity of 855. per ounce. Gold was last week selling at 148½. per ounce in the open market. At the old figure the Bank...
...Thunder is the result of a pressure wave caused by the sudden expansion of air created by a quick lightning discharge. All flashes do not release energy with the same speed. ... In some cases the electrical current is built up and released slowly; that is, in one or two tenths of a second as compared to millionths of a second in other discharges. This so-called slow lightning produces no thunder...
...vast, unpartitioned building, it rises through the water. From its top swirl several strands of seaweed which have twined themselves in the lifting chain with friendly tentacles, and which now hang loose like sparse hairs on the otherwise bald pate of the diving bell. A swirl of the dark current and these few strands, looking grayish in the gloom, drift away, leaving the head completely scalped. From the bottom of the chamber sprouts a sticky brown-black beard which runs up the side several feet--a beard of ooze and slime which has spread over the iron skin...
...exiled German physicist, of the "theoretical and dogmatic" school now under current condemnation by the scientific precinct captains of the Third Reich, telegraphed to the local committee his hope of "lasting success," and added...