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...salt per ton of concentrated ore (50 tons of crude ore). From ore bodies of such richness in northwestern Canada the refining plant is able to extract one gram of commercially pure radium from 550 tons of mined ore. A San Diego mining engineer and chemist named F. S. Kearney, now working in Mexico, assayed Mrs. Bishop's ore at 130 milligrams of radium per ton. This high figure, Mrs. Bishop said, was confirmed when she sent a sample to the Institut de Radium in Paris (once presided over by the late Marie Curie). Present price of radium...
...Five years ago the Akron was approaching the mooring mast at Camp Kearney near San Diego, Calif, when a sudden updraft tossed her 1,000 ft. aloft with three members of the ground crew dangling from a line. Two presently fell to their deaths (TIME, May 23, 1932). With this spectacular incident in mind, all four newsreel cameramen at Lakehurst had turned their lenses on the Hindenburg's ground crew at the crucial moment, thus missed the first flare of flame. The investigators last week appealed for any amateur film which might shed new light...
...church on the ground floor of a Manhattan apartment house one day last week three middle-aged bishops consecrated a 33-year-old who thereupon became the youngest bishop in the U. S. Two years ago the youngest was a 32-year-old Roman Catholic, Auxiliary Bishop Raymond Augustine Kearney of Brooklyn (TIME, Jan. 7, 1935). Last week's youngest...
Howard David Higgins of the Reformed Episcopal Church, which has 8,200 members in the U. S. The entire hierarchy of his church in North America did the consecrating: Bishop Frank V. C. Cloak of the Chicago Synod, Bishop Joseph Edgar Kearney of the "Missionary Jurisdiction" of South Carolina, Bishop George Marshall of the First Synod of Canada (affiliated with the Free Church of England). Bishop Higgins was made Assistant Bishop of the New York and Philadelphia Synod, a confusing title since he will actually run the Synod, assisting no one. Episcopal mainly in that it uses the Prayer Book...
Died. Thomas ("Uncle Tom") Kearney, 66, nationally-known betting commissioner who wagered millions for others but not a cent for himself; of pneumonia; in St. Louis. A onetime bartender, he became a bookie in the '80s, opened his notorious "little big store" in St. Louis in 1910, accepted bets on politics, horse-racing, baseball, boxing. The first to make a future book on the Kentucky Derby, he lost $74,000 on the 1924 race, sold everything to pay it off in full. He quoted odds of 25-to-1 that Lindbergh would not fly the Atlantic, could...