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...mysterious ionizing agent, but not all. Lord Rutherford thought it might be something in the atmosphere near the ground. Göckel of Switzerland, Hess of Vienna and Kolhorster of Potsdam made balloon flights up to five miles, found the radiation seven times stronger than at the earth's surface. Thus the rays were seen to be coming in from the cosmos beyond Earth's blanket of air. Calculation revealed them as more penetrating than the gamma rays which emerge from radium at 3,000,000 electron-volts. Stopped by the War, the cosmic ray hunt started with...
Nevertheless photons are electrically neutral, are not swerved by magnetic fields. If the cosmic rays were Millikan photons, they should not tend to cluster about Earth's strongly magnetic poles, to avoid the weakly magnetic Equator. Yet a Dutchman named Clay, traveling from Holland to Java, found a drop in cosmic ray intensity at the Equator. Kolhorster took this to mean that at least some of the rays were not photons of light, but electrically charged particles of matter...
...high jump record on the moon, if athletes could perform there with the same energy and efficiency as on the earth, would exceed...
Producing about 90% of the world's nickel supply at Sudbury, Ontario, International Nickel has almost a monopoly in its chosen field. There is plenty of nickel in the earth's surface, but it is only in the Sudbury ore that ample supplies of pure nickel can be cheaply extracted from the other elements found in company with it. Even at Sudbury, "cheap" is a relative term, for nickel sells at about 35? per lb., compared with aluminum at 20?, copper at 9?, steel at 2?. Other useful ingredients in Sudbury ore are copper, platinum, gold and silver...
Ominous darkness comes on; darkness bred of the mob's hatred, misunderstanding, greed, vanity, fear and jealousy as much as of the gathering clouds, ill winds and troubled water. The earth shakes and with it murders' philosophies. Soldiers flee! Women scream, Crucifixion's cry is soon silenced and only one voice is heard; "Forgive them for they know not what they...