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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...summer and autumn, uncouth men clamber out of the wooded gullies and ravines of Morgan County. The men had in common an intent, secretive, yet futile look on their faces. They were diamond hunters. Every day they waded Indiana's creeks and panned the gravel left there long ago by glaciers. Frequently they found grains of gold; rarely, yet often enough to stir hope, they found a small diamond. Because similar diamonds have been found in Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin, in the terminal moraines of old glaciers, geologists figure that they were scuffed out of a parent field somewhere...
Most memorable, two thousand business and scientific specialists in fuel were filtering into Pittsburgh for the Second International Conference on Bituminous Coal, called there this week by President Thomas S. Baker of Carnegie Institute of Technology. The coal business, particularly the bituminous part, has long had trouble making money. Despite great reserves of mined coal, competition from gas, oil and waterpower have kept prices low. The producers have become aggressively intent on selling coal derivatives-pulverized coal, tar, fuel oil, gasoline, gas, dyes, perfumes, drugs, alcohol, etc., etc. How to get those products, scientists already know much; how to utilize...
Frank Baldwin Jewett, 49, is president of Bell Telephone Laboratories' 2,000 scientists and their 2,000 assistants. It is the biggest organization of its kind in the world. They invented permalloy and thereby quadrupled the amount of messages possible to send over cables. They made long distance and overseas telephony possible. They have saved the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., and Western Electric Co., for whom they work, millions of dollars, and helped the companies earn more millions...
Florence Reed has never before played a Shakespearian role though she rehearsed in Hamlet with E. H. Sothern in 1907. She devoted her talents in 1917 to the long continued spectacularities of Chu Chin Chow, wherein Ali Baba and his robbers concealed themselves at the Manhattan Opera House ; hers also was the somewhat wanton Shanghai Gesture...
...reader as a purgatory of child marriages, a hell of sadistic animal torture. Mrs. Beck touches lightly upon these abuses, announces firmly that India has made the greatest spiritual contribution of all time. While the West has been making rapid jerks of progress-materialistic, intellectual, scientific-the East has long since attained a spiritual consummation which -the West cannot forever ignore. Western science has recently discovered evolution in the development of a man's body-Eastern philosophy has always been concerned with evolution of the soul to higher and higher spirituality. Western science of the future will be more...