Word: matters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...industry were concerned. With many an obscure legal phrase and many a learned footnote, Lawyer Cowan pokes fun at legalists as only another legalist can. He sets forth how, in an "exhaustive and painstaking opinion," a learned jurist whom he calls Alyce has settled once & for all the subject matter of "interstate commerce...
...Dirac then proposed to construct a new universe out of the leftovers. He had noticed that another scientist of imagination, Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, had arrived at theoretical values for certain constants, such as the quantity of matter in the universe (using the proton as a unit) and the ratio of the electric to the gravitational force between proton and electron. These two Eddington values worked out at 10 78 (10 multiplied by itself 77 times) and 10 39 . Although, as Dirac says, "Eddington's arguments are not always rigorous," they nevertheless gave him "the feeling that they...
...Eddington's other figure, 10 78 . Armed with these two fine coincidences, Dirac next proposed to dispense with the giant numbers and simply say that the ratio of electrical to gravitational force between proton and electron equals t, the age of the universe, and the amount of universal matter equals t². But the universe is not getting any younger. Thus the values dependent on t and t² are not constants at all, but get bigger with the passage of time. The quantity of universal matter would increase proportionately to the square of the universal age. The electrogravity...
Result: A universe which is slowly acquiring more matter, but whose matter is slowly losing "weight" so that the effective mass remains the same...
Though the booming industry was willing to play along with U. S. Steel in the matter of wages, hours and prices, it showed no conspicuous haste in asking John L. Lewis for collective bargaining appointments. Myron C. Taylor has been more circumspect in public statements about Organized Labor than some of his hard-boiled fellow steelmasters. They would probably not receive the shrewd compliment paid last week by Mr. Lewis to Mr. Taylor's "industrial statesman-ship." Rumors flew that Mr. Taylor's feat of industrial statesmanship might be crowned with White House recognition in the field...