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Computations by which navigators determine their position from sextant observations of the altitude (elevation above the horizon) and azimuth (true bearing by compass) of heavenly bodies may take up to 15 minutes. In airplanes traveling 200 m.p.h. such computations are out of date by the time they are made. The Navy's Hydrographic Office published tables last year covering latitudes of 30 to 39 degrees, from which navigators could check their position in a few seconds...
...last week after the voting was over in Tennessee, Chairman Sheppard calmly announced: "Up to date, no candidate himself has been connected sufficiently with any charges to justify an election contest before the Senate." And after preliminaries that had promised real gore, only one Tennessean lay dead, though scores were injured in remote McMinn County...
...August 15 is no nasal mystery, but merely another indication of Nature's regularity. As August 15 approaches, the shortening of daylight hours allows the ragweed plant precisely enough sunlight to ripen it on that day. And the number of hours of daylight and darkness for a given date is the same from year to year...
Last winter a free-lance deep-sea diver and experimenter named Max Nohl had himself lowered 420 ft. to the bottom of Lake Michigan, thus making the world's deepest dive to date in a diving suit (TIME, Dec. 13).* In so doing, Max Nohl conclusively showed the value of a helium-oxygen mixture for deep diving. Helium is a light gas, requires little effort to inhale. It also seems to forestall that bugbear of divers, "the bends" (gas bubbles in the blood...
...Delayed imposing limits on speculative trading in grain. Commodity Exchange Commission let slip the news that the effective date for these rules (TIME, June 27) had been postponed indefinitely since both the Chicago Board of Trade and Cargill Inc. had protested that the rules exceeded CEC's constitutional prerogative...