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...Saul Dushman exhibited a tiny mercury lamp, two inches long and thinner than a lead pencil, which emits a 200-candlepower glare. Its light results from vaporization of a pellet of mercury imbedded in a capillary tube. The little lamp may find use in composing rooms and photographic studios, may replace electric arcs in cinema projectors...
...Last week as August gave way to September the time had come for the gala event of the farm year?the State Fair. In twelve great agricultural states the exciting aroma of hot dogs filled the noses, the brave piping of calliopes filled the ears and the bright glare of rockets filled the eyes of some 3,000,000 U. S. country folk celebrating Fair Week. September would not see the end of this rural revelry, for the South, busy with its tobacco and cotton, cannot frolic much before frost...
...They were late. Ignoring a strict Salzburg rule, the lean old Maharaja & friend pushed by a doorkeeper, swept down the aisle to their seats in the first row. Toscanini, who had lifted his baton to begin the last movement of a Mozart symphony, heard the commotion, turned around to glare, bowed ironically, growled: "Well, I can wait." The sympathetic audience broke into loud cheers which for a moment the flustered Maharaja seemed to take as a personal ovation. Then the flashing-eyed Maestro turned back, flung his orchestra into the Mozart, whirled them through it at angry top speed...
...shattered plane lay on its back in two feet of water, its right wing smashed, its engine crushed back into the cockpit. Pinned inside was the body of Wiley Post. Someone found a flashlight in the cabin, outlined the wreckage in its small glare. Finally Eskimo villagers pried the ship apart, got Post's body out. A shattered wrist watch had stopped...
...first time. About the same time the Bureau took command of another sector with the passage of an act enabling it to chase, catch and convict national bank robbers. With the passage of these laws the Federal Bureau of Investigation burst upon the national consciousness with the terrifying red glare of a ''Tommy" gun's tracer bullet...