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...biggest privately owned yacht in the world is the Orion, 333 ft. long and 46 ½ ft. wide. Last week it arrived in the U. S. from the builder's yards at Kiel on its first trip; on board was Owner Julius Forstmann, textile tycoon of Passaic, N. J. The Orion is a white ship, one-funnelled, 3,096 tons, 1,800 h. p. (twin Diesels), with a crew of 54 officers and men (including a purser, a doctor). She cruised to the U. S. from Kiel via the Barbados and Havana. This autumn Yachtsman Forstmann will take...
...Millikan's audience was Dr. Werner Kohlhoerster of Germany, cosmic ray specialist who last year announced from an observation pit in the Alps that he thought the rays emanated, at present, chiefly from the northeastern heavens, where the constellations Orion, Hercules and Andromeda are giving off enormous quantities of energy from spiral (star-forming) nebulae (TIME...
...Millikan of California had verified the existence of cosmic rays of great penetration, Dr. Kolhoerster of Germany tracing their source to the constellations Orion, Hercules and Andromeda, where new stars are forming...
...guess at their source. They seemed to him to be coming at the earth in all directions. In the Swiss report of last week, however, it was stated that the greatest "penetration radiation" had been detected when the pit on Mont Monch yawned directly up at the constellations Orion, Hercules and Andromeda. This observation fitted in with a theory that the Millikan Rays are the result of atoms being disintegrated during the formation of new stars, for the constellations named all contain spiral nebulosities (embryonic stars...
...gnawing at Orion, Hercules, Andromeda...