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...Disperse!" commanded Deputy Police Chief Faraday and proceeded scrupulously to read the British Riot Act, a document of 48 words...
...present unfortunate condition cannot be laid to deliberate falsification by those in charge of the courses. Either they have set as the length of the laboratory period the time in which a Faraday or a Richards could do the work, basing their schedule on the talents of an ideal experimenter rather than on those of the average burdened pre-medical student; or they have bowed to the University law which permits no course to have more than six hours of laboratory travail per week, placing this maximum figure in the catalogue, when in actual practice it is the minimum...
...Faraday of Frigidaire. In 1926 Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. attended the Refrigeration Show in Manhattan's Grand Central Palace. He wandered from porcelain box to porcelain box, listening to the various degrees of humming, observing the efficiency of freezing power. One refrigerator caught his attention and he had a long talk with the man who stood beside it. The man was red-cheeked Axel Leonard Wenner-Gren, Sweden's No. 2 tycoon, great maker of vacuum cleaners and automatic iceboxes. He was standing beside the new refrigerator he had begun to manufacture. Mr. Sloan noted that...
...Wenner-Gren & Associates eventually became the largest stockholders. But last week Mr. Sloan must have remembered that visit for it became known that a division of General Motor's Frigidaire Corp. will soon offer the only other gas refrigerator in the U. S. It will be called the Faraday in honor of Michael Faraday (1791-1867), famed physicist. It is expected that sales will be handled in good measure by gas companies attempting to increase their own sales...
...Faraday's commemoration, all London has been floodlighted for weeks, giving money-worried Englishmen a bright diversion. In Albert Hall the convening scientists last week found a large statue of Faraday surrounded by his personal relics and devices built on his discoveries. Prime Minister MacDonald made an intercontinental radio talk in Faraday's memory, as did Sir William Bragg, Senator Guglielmo Marconi, Louis-Victor Due de Broglie, Professor Elihu Thomson. President Frank Baldwin Jewett of Bell Telephone Laboratories telephoned his transatlantic respects from Manhattan...