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...streamlined cosmic ray counting apparatus. It is a light structure of four shelves, enclosed within an oval framework about three feet long, covered with black cellophane to keep out light. The two upper shelves in the black football each contain two Geiger counters, or ionization tubes which detect the arrival of cosmic ray particles. On the shelves below the counters are eight radio tubes. Connected to the counters and tubes is a light, compact short-wave radio transmitter with an aerial. When the apparatus is attached to a balloon and sent aloft, passage of the cosmic rays through the Geiger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Millikan to Tasmania | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...friends of mine became "Groupers" (they like to add the erudite "Oxford" to the label) some time back but beyond a lopsided fanaticism, a persistent proclaiming how terrifically bad they were before and how "absolutely honest, absolutely unselfish, absolutely pure and absolutely loving" they are now, one fails to detect any particular difference. At any rate, not pragmatically, although I could not venture to appraise the mystical transformation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Letters, Aug. 21, 1939 | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

...aloft, joined each other in droning, hammering formations, swung in wide arcs over many cities to show U. S. civilians and taxpayers what their nation's wings look like and how they can fly. The length of the Pacific Coast, civilians were organized into a "listening network" to detect the approach of "enemy" planes which defenders from March and Hamilton fields flew up to "intercept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Daddy's Day | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...every case of advanced colored T. B. there are five minimal (early) cases. But minimal cases are hard to detect, and most doctors pay them no mind. Without "mass X-raying of entire communities," said Dr. Peyton Fortine Anderson of Manhattan, it is impossible to nip T. B. in the bud. Modern equipment will make such detective work practicable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Black Tuberculosis | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

Purpose of the grant: to start 1,200 healthy women volunteers on a five-year course of free, thorough, semiannual pelvic examinations, to detect any signs of early cancer of the uterus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer Volunteers | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

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