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...completed, but it will probably take several years. Now that the apparatus is finished, observations will be made on the burning of organic compounds and calculating the amount of heat absorbed when they burn. All this calculation and measurement will be done directly and not in the old roundabout and inaccurate methods. Professor Kistiakowsky hopes that the accuracy will be ten times better than any other ever attained. If it proves to be so he expects the use of his apparatus will be the greatest value in many fields of chemical research, and that it may make possible some revolutionary...
...handiwork of Democrat Huston Thompson, onetime chairman of the Federal Trade Commission. It was largely patterned after Britain's Companies Act. Five years in jail and a $5,000 fine awaited the crooked U. S. stock promoter or corporation official who today must be caught by the roundabout charge of "using the mails to defraud." The proposed legislation did not make all stock issues foolproof but it did attempt to divide investment sheep from speculative goats. When House hearings started on the measure during the week, Representatives were shocked to learn from a Department of Commerce expert that...
...Gang and the New Gang" has the framework of one of Thackeray's Roundabout papers. Mr. Lewis refers to his clever title several times in the first half of the essay, and then forgets about it. His analysis of American politics is an incorrect as his remarks on Leon Trotsky. He tries to be a little too smart, to be sound. He siezes on a few irrelevancies, and builds on them a general philosophy...
...would still make hair-raising cinema of the Dr. Calgari model. Like the late great Joseph Conrad's method of spinning a yarn. Faulkner's is roundabout, circular: sometimes the suspense is awful, sometimes merely interminable. Like Conrad, Faulkner makes his people coherent to an unlikely and omnireminiscent degree. Unlike Conrad, Faulkner depends on madmen for his best effects. From the vasty deep of nightmares and bogeymen he can summon up ghosts that haunt nurseries and still frighten some grownups. With fewer bogeymen than usual, a happy issue out of some of its afflictions. Light in August continues...
...need of artificial inflation of the credits or currency of the country," declared Senator Glass when his bill was reported out by committee, "but if there, is to be any more inflation it should be brought about by a simple method which everybody may understand and not by the roundabout process which is being vainly tried by the Federal Reserve authorities. I think there should be 'diffusive' inflation rather than so-called 'controlled' inflation. ... I distinctly disavow the belief that any of these legislative devices is necessary at this time. I simply offered the bill...