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...Sterne has advanced a step further and has shown that if the sun's temperature were 1000 million degrees or more, all matter existing on it would be, not explosive, but quite passive. In this case transmutations of the elements would be in equilibrium rather than tending to go to completion. Dr. Sterne believes that according for 1 (followed by 11 ciphers) years. This would involve compression or cooling or both, and may be compared to what goes on in a gasoline engine when the temperature is sufficiently high to permit equilibrium taking place...
...issue has been brought to a head because in the south the government is going ahead with its cotton control plan with a million contracts, whereby farmers pledge themselves to cut their acreage by 40 per cent under the previous five-year average. Members of Congress report that there is a heavy business being done in the purchase of fertilizer, indicating an intention to stimulate production. Also there is a slowness to sign contracts, because farmers in some instances think they will gain more by staying out of the plan and increasing their acreage than by coming in and accepting...
...boosted rise of James Stillman from Manhattan cotton broker to president of the National City Bank reads like an Alger success-story. Once in control of the bank, Stillman determined to make it Manhattan's biggest. In two years he ran up its deposits from 12 to 30 million, by the simple expedient (according to Winkler) of quadrupling its gold re serve. The other secret of his success was caution: he made his piles not by financial forays but by carrying a flag of truce. A year after his death (1918) the National City Bank had ballooned to billion...
...Cuba the government assumed control of the Compania Cubana de Electricitad after the company had failed to come to an agreement with its employees and a strike resulted. The company is an affiliate of the Electric Bond and Share Company and represents an investment of about two hundred million dollars; consequently there is bound to be a terrific howl raised in Wall Street for American intervention, and the bankers will doubtless seize this opportunity for pressing their claims on Mr. Roosevelt. Even more serious is the news that the Cuban government plans to take over in the same summary fashion...
...Southern Railroad, had written the version of the "Old 97" sung by Vernon Dalhart on a Victor phonograph record in 1924. Hillbilly George claimed that he wrote the song in 1903, a week after he had helped to pry nine bodies out of the wreckage. Victor sold a million copies of the Dalhart record. George claimed royalties, estimated at $375,000, which last year a Federal district court awarded him (TIME, March...