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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is now a meter for measuring the intensity of ultraviolet rays. Its inventor, Dr. Harvey Clayton Rentschler (Ph. D.) director of lamp research for the Westinghouse Lamp Co., exhibited it last week at the annual meeting of the New York Electrical Society, as his inaugural demonstration upon assuming the Society's presidency...
...aspects of what it costs to be sick in the country and in a great city appeared in surveys published last week. The city medical cost survey was of New York City's 6,000,000 people, made by the research bureau of the local Welfare Council. The country survey was of 860 farm families (3,990 individuals) living in every State of the Union and in every type of farming country. The Farmer's Wife, monthly magazine published at St. Paul, made this survey with the help of the National Committee on the Cost of Medical Care...
Large Rockefeller benefactions began in 1901 with the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. Quickly (1902) followed the General Education Board. In 1909 came the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission to control hookworm in the U. S. In 1913 (the year of the Colorado Fuel strike) the Rockefeller Foundation was formed and the Sanitary Commission recreated as the International Health Board. Three years after Mrs. Rockefeller died he created the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial (1918). At the beginning of 1929 the fields of these were revised and their organizations reduced to two?the Rockefeller Foundation (international) and the General Education Board (exclusively...
Resigned. Dr. Nathaniel Lord Britton, 70, founder in 1896 and only director-in-chief of the New York Botanical Garden, to devote himself to private research in tropical flora. Gardener Britton had nursed a wooded waste to third place in botanical garden fame, to world-known horticultural and botanical exhibits. Exhibits number millions, attendance averages 50,000 on summer Sundays. Long an advocate of planting Japanese ginkgo trees, Gardener Britton is also co-author of a four-volume treatise on cacti...
Grover C. (amphibians) Loening, first man to get a degree for aeronautical research (M. A., Columbia), wished a thrill last week, strapped a parachute to his back, went up in a Stearman over Roosevelt Field, L. I., at 2,000 feet jumped, and landed grinning...