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...speculative London report suggested that the Nazis are using the same pressure principle to crush atoms. The crusher: A "Neuman" demolition charge, which explodes inward instead of outward. Used in a sphere, the Neuman charge might develop pressures of tens of thousands of tons per square inch at the center, perhaps enough to disintegrate an unstable atom such as uranium and release its explosive atomic energy. British scientists believe that such an explosion, though not far-reaching in area, would develop unheard-of violence at the point of impact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: V-3? | 11/27/1944 | See Source »

...errors to Winthrop's 1. Winthrop struck early, making two runs in the first inning and another in the fourth; Eliot's markers crossed the plate in the fifth. The line-ups: WINTHROP (3) ELIOT (2) Burbank, ss cf, Myers Gilliland, 1b 3b, Benjamin Gray, c 1b, Neuman Stuart, cf p, Stevens Butler, 3b rf, Lee Moore, 2b c, White Turner, 1f ss, Demeter Gitt, rf lf, Wells Ellis, p 2b, Snell SUBS: Blumberg, lf p, Litman Sapienza, p rf, Kaplan Benedict...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 4/17/1937 | See Source »

...purchasing at government auction 24,000 cases of liquor seized on the high seas; Harry C. Hatch who had come down from Canada to build a huge distillery in Peoria, Ill. for his Hiram Walker-Gooderham & Worts; a Philadelphia gentleman by the name of Simon ("Si'') Neuman who was sure his Publicker Commercial Alcohol Co. could make 17-year-old whiskey in 24 hours. There were importers large & small, California wine growers, New York champagne men, distributors, restaurateurs, hotelmen, bootleggers. There were realtors, hairdressers and elevator boys, all wild-eyed over their ''slices" in this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Rum Rush | 12/4/1933 | See Source »

...paintings on exhibit are loaned by the artists themselves, the others being parts of the collections of the Frank K. M. Rehn Gallery, the J. B. Neuman Gallery, Mrs. Muriel Draper, and Charles Hopkinson. Most of the them are for sale at prices varying from $40 to $3500; the latter amount is the price put on John Carroll's oil painting entitled. "Two Figures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MODERN AMERICAN ART EXHIBIT STARTS TODAY | 2/21/1931 | See Source »

...newspaper reports of how the Bishop courted his traveling secretary, Mrs. Helen Hawley McCallum, whom he married (his second wife) in London last July and took to Brazil for a honeymoon. The Ministers demanded the Church equivalent of a grand jury investigation of Bishop Cannon. Perforce Bishop William Neuman Ainsworth of Birmingham, Ala., ruling Bishop of the Church, was obliged to hold a hearing. Bishop Cannon delayed action from September when the charges were filed, until last week because his arthritis became worse and worse. He has spent most of the past three months in hospitals. Last week, when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Best Brain in America | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

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