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...show their full import, Researcher Rhine hauled out the mathematics of probability. A subject practicing clairvoyance gets, for example, 7 or 8 hits out of 25 tries. As a gambler knows, the law of averages does not preclude such a score once in a while although the long-run average will be 5 in 25. But suppose the clairvoyant maintains an average of 7.5 hits per 25 tries through 40 runs of 25 cards each?1,000 trials in all. The odds against such a performance resulting from chances are better than...
...social sciences. The fact that English is still the most popular field of concentration guarantees ample treatment of the former topic. But the wider realm of government, political science, and international relations has been slighted in the past. World-wide conditions, however, are of constantly more pressing import to the student, and that it will now have a chance to express his views in a medium expressly provided for that purpose is proof that a much-needed opportunity has at last been provided...
Comrade Troyanovsky is supposed to have gone to Moscow to tell Comrade Stalin that the President is now willing to have Washington's Export-Import Bank guarantee 75% of credits to be extended to Russia by U. S. firms on the basis of Red orders in a volume of some $50,000,000 per year. Part of the interest charged Bolsheviks on these credits would go into the U. S. Treasury as indirect repayment of the Tsarist and Kerensky debts which Stalin & Co. positively refuse to acknowledge as such. It was this refusal, still maintained, which caused Secretary...
...practical hitch in last week's good news: the expense and difficulty of collecting enough vaccine to immunize the 37,000,000 U.S. children under 15. Although all kinds of monkeys may serve for the manufacture of the vaccine, the best kind is Macacus rhesus from India. To import one rhesus monkey to the U.S. costs $9. After it is infected, killed, and its spinal cord ground up with formalin, at a processing cost of $3 more, the finished vaccine is only enough to inoculate twelve children. But even if $37,000,000 were available for nation-wide immunization...
With no silk, no cotton and only 3,500,000 sheep, German efforts to find synthetic textiles are at fever pitch. Rayon production is rigidly protected by import quotas and encouraged by a complex system of rebates to manufacturers. Substitute fabrics, mostly rayons, have been developed to replace woolen and worsted dresses, knitted dresses and full-fashioned silk hosiery. Next problem is men's suits and overcoats. At a recent chemical congress in Cologne the prophecy was made that suits of zelluloid, zellon and galolith (artificial wools) would soon appear, and hats of flirro (fibre made from Cellophane...