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This new liquid, priced at $150 a gram, can now be made at the rate of one thimbleful at a time, where formerly only a single drop was produced. "Heavy water" will be useful to physicists studying the structure of the atom...
...soot. Other puffs are nebulae traveling 12,000 miles a second. Cosmic rays include flashes of light (Millikan photons) from that explosion, and chips of matter (Compton electrons and/or protons; TIME, Jan. 9). They equal one-tenth the light from all the stars and weigh (Millikan calculation) 10 -34 gram per cubic centimeter.* Mount Wilson's Astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble estimates the total amount of matter in space as 10 -31 gram per cubic centimeter. Cosmic radiation thus must be equal to about one-thousandth of all matter, making it "extremely probable that the whole of existing matter...
...Started last March, the Chandu radio pro gram (Beechnut Coffee) is top-ranking in popularity, getting 8,000 letters a week. Chandu. played by Gayne Whitman in the Freeman-Lang studio in Hollywood, is sent over the air by electrical transcription...
...Most important mineral discovery in many years," noted Hugh S. Spence of the Canadian Department of Mines, are two veins of pitchblende at Great Bear Lake, Canada. One gram of radium, worth about $70,000, is produced from six and a half to 13 tons of pitchblende. Canada expects to break the Belgium monopoly of African radium as soon as railroads and highways can be built to Great Bear Lake...
Married. Francis V. du Pont, 37. of Wilmington, Del., son of the late Senator Thomas Coleman du Pont; and Janet M. Gram, 24, of Buffalo, N. Y.; in Baltimore. Present was the bridegroom's brother-in-law. Delaware's Governor C. Douglass Buck...