Word: rays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Headquarters. Everett Sanders, new chairman of the National Committee, leased 90 rooms on the sixth floor of the Palmer House in Chicago as the party's main headquarters. Henry Justin Allen, bald and beaked, was installed as master of the mimeograph. Ray Benjamin, the President's quiet California friend, opened an office where he could take and make White House telephone calls undisturbed...
...keep clean in; 3) to relax in. It is the cinema bathroom on a small scale. It has a bath-rail beside the tub for books, cigarets and a tea set. It has a vertical handrail to hold onto while one steps into the tub. There is a sun-ray lamp, a pillowed rubber mat on the floor. There are closets with sliding glass doors for towels and clothes. There are shadowless mirrors. The bathroom denizen may stand on a given spot in the floor and see his weight indicated on the wall in front of him. The bathroom...
...Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary of the Interior LL.D...
...Ray Farm? Plaything of the General Electric staff is their monstrous x-ray farm on the laboratory roof. C. P. Haskins exposed grapefruit, orange, aster and cotton seeds to x-rays from two to 16 minutes. The grapefruit blossomed five weeks after planting. In nature first blossoming re quires five years' growth. On the contrary, sweet orange seed grew into a twisted, two-leaf plant. As grotesque was a sour orange plant with no green chlorophyll in its stem or leaves. The aster and cotton plants were gnarled dwarfs...
...Cathode Ray Tube Analyzer. To understand the manufacturing possibilities of some materials, x-ray spectra are useful. Analysts get the spectra by striking the material with cathode rays until x-rays flash off. If the material can be put in a vacuum tube the process is comparatively easy. Otherwise the cathode rays must be shot out of the vacuum tube through a very thin metal window into the open air, and then upon material to be examined. This is exceedingly difficult to accomplish. Air tends to dissipate and absorb cathode rays before they can strike x-rays from anything...