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...Earth's total population is 1,820 million. Asia contains 954 million, Europe 478 million, North America 162 million, South America 77 million, Africa 140 million, Australia & Polynesia 9 million. Cornell's astute Walter Francis Willcox estimates that the world's population in 1650 was 465 million, about one-fourth his present 1,820 million estimate...
Fact Judged by U. S. standards Japan's middle classes are miserably poor, but even the poorest patriot can give his mite. Last week the Japanese mite was fixed, for patriotic purposes, at five sen (1? current exchange). Two million workers pledged that every month for the next three years each will pitch five sen into a "War Chest" of $720,000 which will be offered to the Sublime Emperor Hirohito, "Son of Heaven...
Last week millions of adults bought jigsaw puzzles from newsstands, stationers, booksellers, department stores, drug shops. Einson-Freeman Co. made most of them. Jigsaw puzzles had been with U. S. citizens for two or three generations without becoming a fad until clever Morris Einson sold an idea to Prophylactic Products Corp. last summer. Prophylactic offered one of Mr. Einson's puzzles with every toothbrush it sold. A million brushes were sold-and a million puzzles. Pepsodent took up the idea, began giving away more of Einson-Freeman's puzzles which when put together revealed the faces of Amos...
...Some rays pierce the earth's atmosphere more easily than others. If they are all electrons, those which reach sea level-reasons Dr. Compton-must have as much as thirty billion volts behind them. Dr. Compton's estimate is untenable, argues Dr. Millikan. Photons at five hundred million volts make just as big a splash in an electroscope as might electrons many times stronger...
Polarograph is the device's name; quick, precise qualitative and quantitative chemical analysis is its purpose. It can tell the nature and constituents of a substance in from three to five minutes. It can detect substances dissolved in one million times their volume of water, and can do this with just two drops of the solution. It can detect the relative amounts of almost identical substances in a mixture, as fumaric and maleic acids. It can detect minute traces of poisonous adulterants of alcohol and ether, natural and synthetic vinegar, normal and abnormal urine. Professor Heyrovsky, who has been...