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...past four months physicists of the National Bureau of Standards at Washington have been sending clusters of small sounding balloons to great heights in the upper air. Purpose: cosmic ray research. The balloons carry Geiger-Müller cosmic ray counters, barographs, automatic radios which send signals to a ground station every 15 seconds, recording the altitude (in terms of air pressure) and the intensity of the cosmic bombardment. Last week Drs. L. F. Curtiss and A. V. Astin reported that one cluster of six balloons had reached the remarkable height of 23 miles (about 120,000 ft.). This...
...values, thus freeing the land for productive use and restoring to capital & labor the profits wrested from them by landowners, was nearly elected mayor of New York City in 1886. After his death, his creed languished. Only a handful of believers were left when in 1932 one Oscar H. Geiger, a businessman, started the Henry George School. Geiger gathered 84 pupils, taught them one course with George's Progress and Poverty as the text, died at the end of the year. Next year the school got a new director and a business manager, soon was giving free lessons, mostly...
...Arnold's predecessor in charge of trust-busting was Robert Jackson who, last December, ran up against a haymaker from Federal Judge Ferdinand Geiger in Milwaukee. For a year Mr. Jackson's department had been investigating the connection between the Big Three motor-makers (Ford, General Motors, Chrysler) and the Big Four auto-financing companies (General Motors Acceptance Corp., Commercial Credit, Universal Credit Corp.. Commercial Investment Trust). The Assistant Attorney General was trying to get criminal indictments against them for violating the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. But Judge Geiger discharged the grand jury when he discovered that...
...Judge Geiger thought that Robert Jackson had been using the criminal prosecution only as a threat to force the Big Three to cut the umbilical cord binding them to the "Big Four. Mr. Jackson and his boss, Homer Cummings, thought Judge Geiger was "arbitrary, unjust and unfair...
Despite the sudden end of the suit in Judge Geiger's court, another suit before another judge was still an immediate possibility. The companies (General Motors and G. M. A. C. excepted) continued to negotiate with the Attorney General's office for a consent decree. But the final draft proposed last fortnight by the companies' lawyers had so many complicated provisions that the jittery independents thought it was designed to give them even less business than usual. Negotiations broke off. Thurman Arnold had the criminal case reopened before a grand jury in Judge Thomas W. Slick...