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...Reluctantly but unanimously gave final approval to Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon's staggering budgetary decision to spend on the Army, Navy and Royal Air Force $1,750,000,000 in a single year. Sir John, ordinarily rated a cold fish and long the highest paid lawyer in England, told the House in a voice shaking with emotion: "Make no mistake-if we do not succeed and the World does not succeed in finding some way to end the folly of this everlasting expenditure on armaments, then, indeed the future we shall be preparing for our children...
...comparatively young man (he is 32), amiable, dimple-chinned Dr. Carl David Anderson of California Institute of Technology has accomplished a great deal in science. In 1932 he snapped the first picture of a positive electron. For this discovery he won the highest honor Science can bestow, a Nobel Prize. His pioneer positive electron photograph has become historic. In the Physical Review last week, Prizeman Anderson printed a snapshot of another kind of particle which may also become historic...
...million years human beings have lived in a physiological rhythm determined by day and night-that is, a rhythm of about 24 hours. So ingrained is this habit that a daily temperature cycle occurs, body heat being lowest (among people who normally sleep at night) in the early morning, highest in the early afternoon. Some time ago Physiologist Nathaniel Kleitman of the University of Chicago determined to find out whether the human mechanism could break away from this ages-old habit, adapt itself to a cycle of different length...
...encouragement and development of an air-transportation system properly adapted to the present and future needs of the foreign and domestic commerce of the U. S.. of the defense." Postal Service, Regulations and were of to the be framed national "in such a manner as to assure the highest degree of safety . . . foster sound economic conditions . . . without unjust discriminations, undue preferences ... or unfair or destructive competitive practices...
...index of speculative interest in the market, rose to $537,000,000, a $22,000,000 increase in two weeks. Trading on the Exchange, however, turned down last week in the reaction which Wall Street always expects as speculators cash in their profits. One day sales volume hit the highest point since October 29, (2,774,320); two days later volume tumbled to the lowest in three weeks (592,300). Dow-Jones industrial averages at week's end stood at 136.20, down 2.33 points from the 1928 high of the week before...