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Nucleus of the idea is a death ray ? a concentrated beam of sub-microscopic particles flying at velocities approaching that of light. The beam, according to Tesla, would drop an army in its tracks, bring down squadrons of airplanes 250 miles away. Inventor Tesla would discharge the ray by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tesla's Ray | 7/23/1934 | See Source »

Theatre of last week's demonstration was the high-voltage laboratory on the mezzanine floor of General Electric Co.'s testing plant in Pittsfield, Mass. Ninety-six pyranol-filled capacitators (condensers) were mounted on insulators and ranged three deep in a hollow square. Each row of three capacitators was connected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: 250,000 Amperes | 7/23/1934 | See Source »

Next morning shortly after dawn the Houston halted at Hampton Roads to discharge the last batch of official mail, before passing out between Capes Henry and Charles. Ahead lay a long itinerary: a stop at Cap Haitien, so that President Roosevelt could pay a return call on President Vincent of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Three Little Virgins | 7/9/1934 | See Source »

In its report TIME erred in four major points. 1) TIME said Electric Auto-Lite Co. agreed to "rehire first those who did not strike, then the strikers, then men employed prior to the strike, last (and probably not at all) the strikebreakers." Fact: The company promised to rehire all...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 2, 1934 | 7/2/1934 | See Source »

Talk of diminishing fuel oil stocks, however, did not prevent Oil Administrator Ickes last week from devising a new plan to stop ''hot oil" production in Texas. The Department of Justice had failed to approve the industry's plan for a $10,000,000 oil purchasing pool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Oil Week | 7/2/1934 | See Source »

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