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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yaleman Garland went to Pittsburgh's Shady Side Academy, but his financial progress ran roughly parallel to valuation placed on his patent, which he acquired for $500 in stock. By easy stages this pat ent was written up to $7,500, then to $1,000,000, again to $3,250,000 and finally to a good round $32,500,000. At that point Yaleman Garland left Automatic Signal to Professor Fisher, taking off for a land of pure corporate romance. This he populated with no less than 30 companies, the functions of which were even vaguer than their assets...
...pistol with which to shoot Stalin. "The chance did not come, however," added David. "Police were in the same box with me." Over & over Kamenev, Zinoviev and other prisoners got around to confessing in various ways that their purpose as conspirators was simply to kill Russia's pres-ent rulers and become masters of the State themselves, with no program in mind as to how they would run Russia, and no smallest criticism at the trial last week of anything ever done by Joseph Stalin...
...superstition.") But when the children grow up, Mrs. Pratt, now 38, intends to leave them and her home. She will have her head shaved, put on the. yellow robe of a mendicant nun, divest herself of all possessions except a bowl and a prayer chain, "and in the Ori ent enter some retreat or live alone, the homeless life, seeking Nirvana...
...such infinitesimal lines accurately on hard metal or glass. Last week at the Washington meeting of the National Academy of Sciences (see above), Physicist Robert Williams Wood of Johns Hopkins showed how a brilliant scientist may adapt for his own use a technique worked out for a wholly differ ent purpose. At California Institute of Technology, Dr. John Donovan Strong has been coating telescope mirrors with a thin, even layer of aluminum by placing the glass in a vacuum tank, boiling the aluminum off an electric coil so that the aluminum vapor deposits itself on the glass. At Johns Hopkins...
...Weston State Hospital last week Dr. John Edward Offner, the wise superintend ent, quickly abandoned the theory that sexual stirrings in adolescent Teresa Hawkins caused her hysteria. He well knew that a lesion in the brain or a lesion in the abdomen could produce the same kind of false laughter. Upon examining Teresa Hawkins, Dr. Offner found that an appendectomy had resulted in abdominal adhesions. These affected both her diaphragm and womb, put a strain upon her constitution which she withstood until her shorthand studies exhausted her. Then she lost all emotional control. Soon as Dr. Offner performed a second...