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...process of manufacture and had a considerable quantity in storage for shipment to the front. All the helium now being produced is utilized by the Army and Navy. Other sources are known to the Government, their location being kept secret. Helium is an inert gas of great light ness and non-inflammability, present in the air in minute quantity. Airships inflated with hydrogen or other gases are subject to the danger of being exploded by anti-aircraft guns or engine accidents; helium is immune to such catastrophes. Helium was first dis covered, in 1868, by Sir J. Norman Lockyer...
...center of the American busi ness stage has been almost monopolized by the stock market during the past week. Ten days ago share prices were distinctly weak; of the speculative "leaders," Can declined ¼ in a day, Baldwin ?, Studebaker ?, Steel 1?. Even the reliable chain stores sold off sharply. Stewart Warner dropped...
RAIN?The United States Marines collaborate with Jeanne Eagels (as a lady who isn't no real lady) to ruin the unco guid-ness of a peevishly pious missionary while tropical rain pours down incessantly on the just and the unjust and shivers chase each other on the audience's spine...
...when he became Secretary of the Board of Trade. His fine business brain and the manner in which he had discharged his duties under the Coalition Government induced Bonar Law to appoint him as Chancellor of the Exchequer last Fall. This office he also filled with excellent busi- ness efficiency. His experience has not been great as politicians go, and he is confronted with enormous difficulties. It is safe to say that his policy will be chiefly di-rected on economic grounds. Asked by reporters if they might congratulate him, Baldwin replied, "Thanks, I am a subject for prayers rather...
...recent contributor of yours has, I think, made a rather unsatisfactory, if not altogether lame, comparison between the man who uses "Tutorial School" notes and he who does not. "The former," he says, "learns stick-to-it-ness, the latter concentration, both of which are valuable." This would leave one to think that one course was as productive of good as another. This is rather deceptive. Is, say a three-day concentration period, able to compare in value with a four month stick-to-it period? Or is concentration a desirable so rare that a little of it will...