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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Resources Committee was established by an Administration order in July 1934. It was allotted $800,000 from the Emergency Relief Act appropriations of 1935. Professor Ogburn's subcommittee was told off to appraise current technological trends and their probable impact on society. This group included President Frank Rattray Lillie of the National Academy of Sciences, President John Campbell Merriam of the Carnegie Institution, President Edward Charles Elliott of Purdue University, a handful of economists, educators and one mathematician. The subcommittee admitted that "invention is a great disturber," but also agreed with the defenders of Science that it creates...
...mechanical cotton picker. Most successful of such pickers is the machine devised by John D. and Mack Rust of Tennessee, social-minded brothers who are resolved to cushion the impact of the machine on Southern labor but are selling and demonstrating their pickers in Soviet Russia. After several demonstrations U. S. cotton men are still divided as to the Rust picker's practicability...
...factor in last winter's airplane crashes was radio failure due to snow static. United Air Lines therefore set aside a Boeing laden with instruments and experts which flew almost daily over the mountainous Northwest-an ideal snow-static laboratory. Snow static was supposed to be caused by impact on the antenna of droplets containing tiny electric charges. United last week announced that it is caused by discharge from trailing edges of electricity gathered while flying through heavily charged clouds. When sufficiently severe, snow static affected the shielded loop, heretofore the best-known remedy (TIME, Jan. 25), as much...
...proton, possessed of high penetrating power. In Denver last week Dr. Street announced that it may be positive as well as negative, that in his opinion it is not a messenger from outer space but originates about ten miles up in the stratosphere, as the result of an impact delivered by a cosmic ray particle. What it is that gives birth to the new particle when struck is a matter of conjecture...
...electrobasographs Dr. Schwartz determined that in natural walking the big toe propels the body forward, the heel and outer margin of the middle feet merely bear weight. The heel strikes the ground first, stays there 0.4 sec. Then, 0.15 sec. after the beginning of the heel's impact, the middle foot begins a 0.4-sec. roll upon the ground. Just as the heel lifts clear, the big toe comes down for a 0.2-sec. contact. The instant the toe of one foot is ready to leave the ground, the heel of the other foot comes down to begin...