Word: rays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gauntly in the sagebrush on a windswept Nevada plain about 22 mi. from the Boulder Canyon damsite stood Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur last week. He held a sledge hammer in his hand. Up over his shoulder he swung it, awkwardly but resoundingly brought it down on a silver spike, pinning together a 90-lb. (per yard) rail and its first tie. Thus he began construction (by Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corp.) of a Union Pacific spur railroad which is to link Las Vegas, Nev. and the Boulder Canyon of the Colorado River, first step in building...
...magnetic field. As they continue in a spiral motion they gather speed, finally shoot out the end of the tube, minute bullets capable of battering the nucleus of any atom in their path, perhaps of changing it into atomic energy which scientists have long talked about. Cosmic Rays. Although some scientists have thought that the "cosmic rays" which bombard the earth might be high-speed electrons, recent investigations have indicated that they are ether waves of very high frequencies, reported Robert Andrews Millikan, chairman of the executive committee of California Institute of Technology, one of the most famed...
...friendly up-to-date usefulness is the secret of success in business. This axiom has been the guiding force in the progress of Chatham Phenix National Bank & Trust Co. And it is obviously the guiding force in your business ?as evidenced by your use of ultra violet ray in the 'toasting' of the Lucky Strike tobaccos...
...Violet ray treatment became a part of the toasting process some months ago, is now advertised for the first time. It consists of tumbling the tobacco in rotating drums at a rate which, according to the American Tobacco Co., gives each shred a three-second exposure to two arcs. No extravagant claims are set up for it, but unofficially it is said the process "may in general be interpreted as tending toward an indication of mildness...
...Baltimore, Dr. Joseph Colt Bloodgood, clinical professor of surgery and director of the Garvan Experimental Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University,! presided over a three-day conference of medical men. Twenty-thousand letters had been sent inviting doctors to instruction in reading X-ray pictures of cancerous bones. Only 300 appeared at Baltimore, but events proved that the 300 needed Dr. Bloodgood's instruction. He had photograph after photograph of cancerous bones and joints thrown on a screen. The 300 were asked to write down their diagnoses. At first very few were correct. But as projections continued scores mounted until...