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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Method: To obtain satisfactory television on a large screen, 300,000 optical fragments must be transmitted and received each second. The best speed of Inventor Baird of London has been 30,000 to the second. By the new Bell system, a rate of 45,000 to a second is maintained. In the new system, as in Inventor Baird's, the object to be transmitted is divided up into many parts by beams of light flowing through a revolving disc. The variations of light and shade on the face are changed into variations of electrical current by three large photo...
...wage is the minimum per day for day workers. Miners paid by the minimum rate per ton, $1.08, may earn as much...
Iron & Steel. Writer John W. Hill in last week's Iron Trade Review summarized 1926 iron and steel business. Twenty-six companies earned $265,138,052 on capitalization of $3,954,170,893?6.7%. In 1925 the percentage of earnings to capital was 5.61. U. S. Steel's rate was 6.65%, that of Bethlehem Steel . 5.54%. Such returns on investments are far less than prevail in other industries, Writer Hill declared, pointing to General Motors whose earnings last year were 30%?$186,000,000 on $634,000,000 capital...
...crew of the whaler Lansing were killing whales at an average rate of two per day and lashing them alongside for scientists to cut from the base of the whale brains the whale pituitary glands. After each operation, the carcass was set adrift, the small gland pitched into a barrel. When the Lansing returns, Dr. Max S. Dunn will attempt to analyze whale pituitaries into their constituent elements to discover what agency or force causes whale tissue to assume such prodigious proportions, perhaps what agency or force is the source of all animal structure and life. Possible "usefulness": a better...
...Nicaragua will soon be straightened out and there will soon be peace. It looks to me as if the people are soon to have an opportunity to express their opinion on who they desire to be their President; possibly an election in Nicaragua will soon take place. At any rate, the appointment of Mr. Simpson means that the policy of the United States in regard to Nicaragua is to be altered in some degree, no matter how slight...