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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rats are not generally considered either popular or useful animals. But to scientists, who use them for biological and psychological experiments, they are both. In many laboratories, in which dozens of rats are kept in one cage, it is essential that they be marked in some way so that any one rat can quickly be singled out from all the other rats. Labels attached to the rats or marks painted on them are not entirely satisfactory. A more popular method is notching or perforating the ears according to a code. Another is cutting off various combinations of toes, or different...
Since 1933 some scientists have left Germany, others have stayed there and kept quiet, and still others have chimed in with the Nazi idea that German science should be distinct from the brands of science in evidence elsewhere. A most outspoken and articulate defender of Nazi scientific ideology is crusty old Professor Johannes Stark, head of the German Bureau of Standards, an able physicist who won a Nobel Prize in 1919 for his discovery of the "Stark effect" (splitting of spectrum lines when a glowing gas is subjected to a strong electrical field), and his studies of "canal rays" (beams...
...public within a few months. Germans have television-equipped telephone service between Berlin and Leipzig, can ring up faces as well as voices. But in the U. S., where the radio industry is private and the broadcasters have to play the game with their own chips, caution has kept television in the laboratory experimental stage...
...With Boeing's 307, DC-4 is the first commercial transport plane with a pressurized cabin. Its passenger compartment will be kept at low-altitude air pressure for passengers' comfort while the plane flies high, above bad weather. Overweather flight has been one of commercial aviation's greatest developments in the last decade, and Douglas planes have taken the lead in making a high curve the shortest traveling distance between any two points in the U. S. DC-4 will heighten the curve, shorten the distance. Without pressurized cabins, planes now fly as high...
...Cloisters would never have been built but for the acquisitive energy of the late Sculptor George Grey Barnard (TIME, May 2). In France before the War, Sculptor Barnard kept his eye peeled for fine examples of Gothic stone work. He brought back to the U. S. large sections of the cloisters of four great, abandoned monasteries, installed them with other medievaluables in a gallery next to his studio. In 1925 John D. Rockefeller Jr. bought this collection for $600,000, presented it to the Metropolitan Museum, added gifts of his own. When he gave Fort Tryon Park to the City...