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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second important task of the new board will be to help organize and finance special stabilization corporations among farmers to purchase surplus farm products from glutted seasonal markets and hold them in storage pending better prices. In the past such large-scale grain corporations on private capital and under private control have failed. It remains to be seen whether federal cash and supervision can make them successful. Critics of the new farm relief legislation predict that the Federal Farm Board will loan large sums to such corporations which in turn will buy in surplus commodities on a falling price market...
Thus physicians may now administer ultraviolet rays in units the way they give other medicines by pellet, teaspoon, dropper. It remains for physicians to evolve a dosage scale in terms measurable by the Rentschler meter...
While Fishman Taylor freezes lamb chops on a small scale, he uses the same method in freezing fish on a large scale. Onetime (1918-22) Chief Technologist of U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, he is generally admitted to be the Man Who Knows Most About Fish. Mr. Taylor began his scientific career at Trinity College (now Duke University) in 1911 where, as a laboratory assistant in biology, he spent most of his time catching frogs and tadpoles for others to experiment on. Since 1915, however, when he joined the Bureau of Fisheries, he has been Fishman Taylor in most...
Henry Norris Russell: an astronomer, whose study of nature's handiwork on her grandest scale has won a well-deserved renown...
Sirs: In your edition of May 27, p. 44, under the caption of Golden Jubilee, you omitted to mention the most important glass bulb without which the incandescent lamp would be impossible. The credit for the development of producing these bulbs on the scale required today belongs to the Corning Glass Works, and no small share of it to Ambassador Houghton* and his associates, who had the foresight and imagination to spend a fortune on the development of machines that would blow these bulbs, and on glass research, so that these machines could be worked. The earliest lamp bulbs were...