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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Japan was again threatening China while Italy was mobilizing 45,000 more men for possible war service against Abyssinia. Also last week Lewis Fry Richardson, D. Sc., F. R. S., principal of Paisley Technical College, showed in the British journal Nature how the approach of any two nations toward war can be reduced to mathematical equations...
...past year-from Philadelphia's Louis Manuel Lieberman & Simon Stein Leopold's "Further Data on Artificial Pneumothorax in Experimental Lobar Pneumonia" to Philadelphia's Charles Harrison Frazier's "The Modern Treatment of Surgical Shock." These papers will keep the A. M. A.'s Journal in ample copy for six months or more...
...Agents harkened to inflation warnings, and the American Scrap Exporters Conference learned that only 10% to 15% of the iron & steel junk shipped abroad went indirectly into armaments. The New York Bond Club held its annual shindig at Sleepy Hollow, enlivened as usual by publication of the Bawl Street Journal, expert parody of the Wall Street Journal. Hailed by the National Board of Fire Underwriters as a sure sign of recovery was a sharp drop in the arson rate.* But the most important convention of the week was the 44th annual meeting of the American Iron & Steel Institute...
Died. Major John Sanford Cohen, 65, president and editor of the Atlanta Journal, vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee, onetime U. S. Senator from Georgia (appointed to fill a nine-month vacancy in 1932); of stomach ulcer; in Atlanta. A Journal reporter in 1890, he rose to its presidency...
Died. Dr. Edwin Brant Frost, 68, famed blind astronomer, longtime director of the University of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory at Williams Bay, Wis., editor for 32 years of The Astrophysical Journal; of peritonitis following a gallstones operation; in Chicago. Dr. Frost's greatest achievements were in the mechanics of stargazing, in spectroscopic technique whereby are calculated the diameters, masses, densities, speeds and directions of stars. During his lifetime and partly through his labors, the known cosmos multiplied from a few thousand to hundreds of millions of heavenly bodies...