Word: radiumator
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...tube which can shoot more concentrated radiation through twelve inches of steel than could all past commercial tubes combined plus all the radium ever mined, was announced last week at the Radiological Society of North America. It is the first commercial tube to operate at two million volts...
...volts each. The tube is completely sealed-off, like an ordinary radio tube, needs no pumping to maintain the high vacuum. It is compact, portable so that it can be used to in spect the insides of machinery installed anywhere. In therapeutic use its advantage is that of radium over ordinary X rays: its rays are so penetrating that they can destroy internal cancers without harmful effect on the skin and fleshy tissues...
Madam Curie, the quiet yet dramatic story of the foremost woman scientist of our time, is now playing at the U.T. The theme of the picture is the discovery of radium by the Curies, an epic story of human persistence and scientific endeavor. Cast in the leads are Greer Garso and Walter Pidgeon, both of whom play their parts expertly with a degree of sureness and restraint not often seen in these days of B pictures. The supporting parts are also well cast. In particular, Dame May Whity, giving a good characterization of Pierre Curie's mother...
...sequence on the long search for radium in the poor woodshed laboratory of the Curies is so well done that it almost makes the spectator tired. The search progresses until the search seems fruitless and then in a flash they realize their triumph. The triumph may seem anti-climactic but this is a story which must be understood in its wider context of radium's benefits to mankind...
...Radium Chemical Co. promptly sent a crew with sensitive detectors to work down through 19 floors of plumbing. They found only one tube, caught in a defective trap...