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...Francis Ferdinand Lucas, Bell Telephone Co. researcher, told of a new microscope of his invention, so powerful that it will divide a cell 1/3,000 inch in diameter into a 30-story apartment-house-like structure. The lenses have a magnifying ratio of 5,000 : 1. Starting at the top of a cell it can take a picture, be moved down 1/100,000 inch at a time to take cross-section views...
...Official world record, 14 hr. 25 min. by Ferdinand Schulz, Germany, 1928; official U. S. record, 9 hr. 5 min. 32 sec., Hawley Bowlus, Point Loma, March, 1930; previous unofficial world record, 14 hr. 45 min., Lieut. Dinort, Germany...
Promptly thereafter the Senate Commerce Committee, Republican-controlled, reported favorably to the Senate two unemployment relief bills offered by New York's Democratic Senator Robert Ferdinand Wagner. One bill called for a complete monthly collection of employment figures by the Department of Labor to replace the present hit-or-miss system which keeps even the President of the U. S. ignorant as to the number of jobless. The other bill would establish a $150,000,000 public building program which the U. S. on short notice could swing into the breach of any future labor depression. Enactment of these...
...Washington, before the Senate Commerce Committee, began hearings on bills offered by New York's Democratic Senator Robert Ferdinand Wagner to relieve unemployment. Senator Wagner flayed the Hoover administration for what he charged was its attempt to produce "prosperity by proclamation." He insisted that unemployment was far more widespread and severe than the Department of Labor's statistics would indicate. Against photographs of New York's breadlines he set a picture of Citizen Calvin Coolidge being banqueted in California at a "prosperity dinner...
...Constitutional History of the Realms of the Crown of Aragon under Ferdinand and Isabella," Professor Merriman, Emerson...