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That Prince Friedrich of Prussia should lie snug in a household so close to the British Royal Family was not to be endured in wartime, more especially since the Duke had for years spoken highly in Mayfair drawing rooms of what a good job Hitler was doing in Germany. So...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Duke at Large | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

GI. Job of the first division of the General Staff is preparation of plans and policies for personnel from recruiting to discharge. Its sphere includes Army pay, promotion, regulations, recreation, religion. Boss of G-1 is handsome, polished 55-year-old Brigadier General William Edgar Shedd Jr., a coast artilleryman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY: Military Brains | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

When ozone is bubbled through a dilute pyrogallol solution, the liquid glows brightly though no heat is evolved. Not true is the common saying that scientists are still searching for "cold light." Fluorescent and vapor-discharge lamps (e.g., neon, sodium) are true "cold lights" in that heat is not what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bioluminescence | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

When fluorescent lighting showed commercial possibilities several years ago, Hygrade researchers went quickly to work. Mercury vapor inside fluorescent lamps is ionized by an electric discharge between electrodes at each end, produces short ultraviolet rays which must then be converted by a fluorescent powder to visible light. In February Hygrade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Hygrade Out from Under | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

Messrs. Walter, McGuire & friends would have scores of new Federal boards hear petitions from "any person . . . aggrieved by a decision of any officer or employe of any [Federal] agency."* Chairmen of these tribunals would have to be lawyers. They and the already laden courts (on appeal from the boards) would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Relief for Lawyers? | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

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