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...statisticians last week could throw cold water on the fact that an $800,000,000 industry will have to be largely rebuilt. While increased grain consumption may lag till the beer business gets back into stride, during that time the rebuilding and re-equipment business is going to be at its best. Last week F. W. Dodge Corp., trusted reporters on the building trades, set forth that $58,000,000 will be spent on breweries during the next four months in 37 States east of the Rockies, probably $65,000,000 in the nation...
...Harry B. Maris, observing radio signals one day, noticed that they came with an unaccountable time lag. He could explain the lag by supposing that the radio waves were reflected from a layer of ions 1,300 mi. high. If his supposition was valid, the Kennelly-Heaviside Layer was not a pulsating spheroid, but a spheroid with one axis pushed out to make a shape much like that of a standard X-ray tube, with Earth & its inhabitants at the centre. The distances from the Earth's magnetic poles to the ends of the '"tube" would be about...
...York, resigned. Of late he has been giving most of his time to settling tax accounts with insolvent taxpayers. His purpose wherever possible has been to try to keep a taxpayer a taxpayer. It was the Treasury's expectation, according to Assistant Secretary Douglas, that revenue would lag for the first six months of fiscal 1933. Counted on to cut the growing bulk of the deficit are income tax payments next March under new and higher rates. But even here the Treasury's actual receipts remain highly conjectural...
...that minimum, he throws a current of electricity into the magnets. Their opposite fields wrench the light beam. The twisting follows the throwing of the switch by a time interval which must be measured in billionths of a second. Because that infinitesimal measurement is possible and because the time lag is different for every element and every form of every element, it is a delicate analyzer of unknown substances. It can discern one trillionth of a part of a foreign substance in anything presented to its wrenching beam. Last week's triumph of Professor Allison was his ability to state...
...were pounding the editorial typewriter he would think long, long thoughts before attempting criticism that to many professors is sheer impertinence. College administrators, the nation over, seem to be awakening slowly to the need for free speech in the collegiate press, but college faculties, as such, lag lamentably in this liberalism...