Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...basement of the new laboratory, will be rooms for high-pressure experimentation, for x-ray apparatus, and for research in high frequency and vacuum tubes. Beneath this will be a sub-basement where there will be a special x-ray work-room sheathed in lead to prevent the filteration of the rays into photographic appliances or other aparatus that they would harmfully affect. The basment is to be equipped with double walls which will prevent outside disturbances from affecting the extremely delicate measurements essential to research. Rooms will be sound proof and of constant temperature. A huge, 100,000 volt...
...Roosevelt and Wilson" were some of the things Editor William Allen White last week called his great and good friend President Hoover in the first issue of a new Republican campaign tabloid weekly.*;In the same issue Will Irwin began an interview with the Secretary of the Interior thus: "Ray Lyman Wilbur looked up at me across the tracks of a baby dinosaur. . . ." C. Last week President Hoover contemplated the New York stockmarket (see below), moved against unemployment...
...Ray Lyman Wilbur last week got a new lease on Cabinet life. When his great & good friend President Hoover made him Secretary of the Interior, Dr. Wilbur, as president of Stanford University, was given a year's leave of absence by his trustees. That leave expired Aug. 31. Last week the Stanford Daily, undergraduate publication, editorially demanded that Dr. Wilbur resign either his Cabinet position or his college presidency...
Beaten in Congress, angry Arizona last week began in the U. S. Supreme Court a final attack upon Boulder Dam* The court allowed the State, through K. Berry Peterson, its attorney general, to bring suit against California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming and Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur in an attempt to have the Colorado River Compact and the Boulder Canyon Project Act declared unconstitutional...
...spread, people came running with money to buy the mine. One gram of radium sells to-day for from $50,000 to $70,000. A group of Canadian doctors finally succeeded in buying several hundred acres around the discovery. Headed by Dr. Gordon Earle Richards, head of the X-ray department, Toronto General Hospital, and Dr. George William Ross, they organized Ontario Radium Corp. Last year they sent samples of their ore to England. There it was refined, meeting satisfactorily all necessary tests. The doctors found that one ton of their ore yielded 186 milligrams of radium. Belgian Congo mines...