Word: miiller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them concerns C. H. Miiller, a TIME subscriber in Caracas, Venezuela, who asked us for help on an urgent transportation problem. "I am in a fix," Mr. Müller wrote. "My wife (with our 16-month-old child) wants to visit her aging parents at Ponta Delgada, São Miguel, Azores. My wife's parents are old and sick, and she wants to see them as soon as possible. Would you be kind enough to find out a way for her to travel by air from Venezuela to the Azores...
Philadelphia's El-Tronics Inc. took no chances. In magazine ads it bragged: "At last, an inexpensive Geiger-Miiller counter set [a radioactivity detector] for only...
...radiation. In the earth's absorbent atmosphere most natural and electric light rays, except clear sunlight, contain almost no radiation in the far ultraviolet (below 3,000 angstroms*); but an open flame or spark radiates appreciable amounts in that range. Weisz developed a photoelectric adaptation of the Geiger-Miiller counter (usually used for detecting radio activity), which responds to a flame or spark but not to ordinary light. Its likely first use: in airplanes - to give warning of flaming motors...
...when Bishop Abe was chosen, the Japanese Government stipulated that he should hold office for life. The Methodists obediently changed their constitution. With the favor of Japan's nationalist rulers, Bishop Abe may receive powers over Japanese Christians similar to those which Hitler's Reich-Bishop Ludwig Miiller tried in vain to use on German Protestants...