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...losing his presence of mind. Dr. von Grosse laboriously located the crumbs by microscopic search, popped them into a tube of hydrofluoric acid where they disappeared beyond even microscopic view. From the acid. Dr. von Grosse said last week, he hopes eventually to extract the protoactinium in a single lump which may once more be seen under a magnifying glass...
Four years training in aviation, with pay ranging from $75 to $125 a month and a lump bonus of $1,500 at the end of the period, are offered by the United States Naval Reserve Aviation Base in Squantum...
...month during training and $125 a month during active service, with extra for flying risk. A daily allowance of $1 for living expenses is added; also every cadet is insured in the amount of $10,00 the government. At the end of the four year period a lump sum of $1200 will be paid. Uniform allowances are also supplied...
...mine selling price of every lump of the nation's soft coal last week fell a new 15% Federal tax, 90% of which will be rebated to producers who sign the NRA-like code prescribed by the Bituminous Coal Conservation Act of 1935. Moving promptly to resolve what President Roosevelt called "doubt, however reasonable," as to the Act's constitutionality, President James W. Carter of Virginia's and West Virginia's Carter Coal Co. lost one decision to the Government, won one against his family in District of Columbia Supreme Court...
...public office. . . . It is . . . in order to applaud a young man like Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. . . . and to see in his ambition to emulate the example of his illustrious grandfather a portent of brighter days. For Mr. Lodge, we believe, is of the kind of stuff to leaven the lump of mediocrity that burdens our national councils...