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With the passing of Labor Day, business rounds a definite turn in its seasonal orbit, enters upon the straightaway that usually is marked by its greatest speed. Last week economists, statisticians, chart readers anxiously awaited the first indication of what business will do after this year's turn. It will probably speed up. The question: Will its advance be as great as that of a normal year, or will it be a sluggish, short response which, in a weighted chart, would represent decline? Factors began to appear last week. The Market. As if in anticipation of the long-rumored...
...Orbit: elliptical, with long diameter ap proximately 144; billion miles...
Looking at a photograph of the sky made five days ago, Harvard scientists were able to spot the comet in its orbit. The photograph was made as part of the daily routine of the Observatory...
...search was begun by Harvard astronomers for old photographic plates which may contain pictures of the new planet. If these are discovered additional material will be available from which may be calculated the precise position of X and its orbit...
...orbit of the Wilkes comet has been computed, it was announced yesterday by Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard College Observatory. "The comet," Professor Shapley stated, "has been observed in Copenhagen. Berlin, and at the Mt. Hamilton Observatory of the University of California in Berkeley. This latter station has forwarded its calculations to us for redistribution...