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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wells to Fold. Some three decades ago Sir Norman Lockyer, who discovered helium in the sun, urged BAAS to take some notice of social problems, to establish better communications with the public. The members snorted. Sir Norman thereupon organized the British Science Guild, which cooperated on socio-scientific matters with His Majesty's Government. When BAAS continued its indifference, famed Biologist John Burden Sanderson Haldane also resigned from it, and Writer Herbert George Wells mercilessly made fun of it. For the last twelve years persistent efforts have been made to reconcile the Association and the Guild. Now that BAAS...
Solar Sideswipe. Sir James Jeans is mainly responsible for widespread acceptance of the theory that, some billions of years ago. a star passed close enough to the sun to exert a powerful gravitational attraction upon it. drew out long streamers of hot gas which condensed and cooled to become the Earth and the other planets. At Blackpool, Sir James said that a colleague had recently pointed out to him that this theory failed to account for the fast rotation speeds of the big outer planets, which have short days of about ten hours. The astronomer indicated his readiness to abandon...
...time, which would eliminate the paradox of the fast rotation speeds. Professor R. A. Lyttleton brushed off and brought out a theory originated by Henry Norris Russell of Princeton, which contemplated the sun as originally a double star, one of which was pulled away by a third star. Sir James Jeans seemed pleased by all three suggestions...
Habitually gloomy on the subject of world trade is Singer Manufacturing Co.'s venerable President Sir Douglas Alexander. At annual stockholders' meetings held in Manhattan by Singer in September, because it takes accountants eight months to make a report on Singer's outlandish business, Sir Douglas has seldom beamed since Singer lost $106,000,000 in the War ($84,300,000 in Russia). Black depression crept into Sir Douglas's cultivated voice in September 1933, when he had to report that Singer profits in the preceding year hit a low of $2,412,698. Last week...
From Singer representatives in Spain, he said, no word had been received about possible damage to Singer sales units or the Singer Building in Madrid. The company has called off all Spanish shipments. Sir Douglas did not say how much business Singer did in Spain last year...