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Called the oceanograph, the Rossby instrument has a stylus which makes a temperature-pressure graph on a sheet of smoked aluminum foil. The foil is moved back & forth by a barometer and tension spring hookup which keeps track of the water pressure (hence the depth). The stylus is moved from side to side by a bimetallic thermometer which keeps track of the temperature. Its creators state that the oceanograph is accurate to within one foot of depth and one-tenth of one degree Fahrenheit in temperature. It is to be used on the 142-ft. auxiliary ketch Atlantis, peripatetic research...
...Going Hollywood he got $75,000. He was born in Tacoma, Wash, in 1904. studied law at Gonzaga University, failed to take his bar examination, became a "hot" singer with Paul Whiteman's Rhythm Boys. When William Paley of Columbia Broad casting System heard a Crosby phono graph record, Bing was hired to sing on the radio for Cremo cigars, imitating Rudy Vallee's low register quavers. Now almost as popular as Vallee in the U. S. and Eng land, Crosby is much more popular else where, partly because his singing has ceased to be affected, partly because...
...Lowell House, where a detailed check was made by the house committee, it was found that about 28 men entered the dining room in the first five minutes. The second five minutes brought 45. From this point, a graph prepared by the committee showed a steady drop. Approximately 50 per cent of the men ate during the first half hour. In the last fifteen minutes only 15 per cent were represented...
...conclusions can be made, let us first examine the graph of indices. We find a gradual climb fluctuating throughout the centuries, and not sign of decrease that is large enough to be considered. Therefore, if the future continues as the past, war will not disappear from the face of the earth, but will continue regardless of efforts to stop it. Although war has been most undesirable, the steady pronounced increase continues; but desirability is one thing, and probability is another
...value. With little money to spend for paintings, Dr. Fuller showed his good sense by filling his galleries not with mediocre pictures but full-sized German color reproductions of famed European masterpieces, valued at from $10 to $25 apiece, most of them printed by the famous commercial litho graph family of Adolf Hitler's best friend, booming, excitable Ernst Franz Sedgwick Hanfstaengl of Munich...