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...balmy spring night last week two men were alone in a big brick building on the Princeton University campus. Physics Professor Rudolf Walter Ladenburg, 53, and Research Associate Cletus Clinton Van Voorhis, 50, were so interested in their atom-smashing experiments that they had come back to the physics laboratory to work after dinner. For bullets they used neutrons. The neutrons were knocked out of beryllium by alpha particles from radium. The beryllium and 200 milligrams of radium sulphate, worth $4,000, were in a metal tube. One of the scientists started to solder a loose cap on the tube...
...knew better than Ladenburg and Van Voorhis that radium poisoning rots flesh & bone, finally kills. Terrified they ripped off their clothes, wiped their skins with wet cotton. To find specks they could not see, they used an electrical radium detector of the sort that sets up a staccato clicking in the presence of radioactive emanations (TIME...
...against $8,479,000 in that period last year. Seaboard common has dropped from $12½ to $1, preferred from $28 to $2¼. Last week the j railroad announced it was unable to cope j with the situation, asked its bankers, DilIon, Read & Co. and Ladenburg, Thalmann & Co., to help work out another new plan, i avert receivership. Chief immediate problem is the maturity of some $11,000,000 ; bonds during 1931. Seaboard Air Line is grouped with Wabash in the I. C. C. plan, but Wabash has shown no desire to acquire the unfortunate road. Southerners are familiar with Seaboard...
...case at issue was a suit brought by the banking firm of Ladenburg, Thalmann & Co. (of Manhattan) against the Alien Property Custodian and the banking firm of Delbruck, Shickler & Co. (of Berlin). The $148.28 was owing to the Manhattan firm by. the Berlin firm before the War. The Manhattan firm wished to collect the debt at the pre-War rate of exchange and with interest to the sum of $20.40. The Berlin firm agreed that the Manhattan firm was entitled to its claim, but argued that the German Government should pay the claim, since the German bankers were not responsible...
...patronesses were: Mrs. Francis C. Barlow, Mrs. Calvin S. Brice, Mrs. H. Mortimer Brooks, Mrs. Joseph H. Choate, Mrs. James C. Cooley, Mrs. Winthrop Cowdin, Mrs. Fellows Davis, Mrs. Alexander Duer Irving, Mrs. Leonard Jacob, Mrs. Adolph Ladenburg, Mrs. J. Pierpont Morgan, Mrs. J. Hampden Robb, Mrs. Philip Sands, Mrs. William H. Taller, Mrs. T. M. Waterbury, Mrs. Jacob Wendell...