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Prospective. There is, obviously, no Smithsonian Institute yardstick for the value of stocks. But by yardsticks usually employed, most U. S. Industry was selling last week on the theory that two, three or more years would elapse before Prosperity could be said to have returned. The actual facts were in no way alarming. Compared with other depression-years, the wonder was not that two houses had failed within the month but that many more firms had not failed months ago. Even such an arch-conservative as the New "York Times' Alexander Dana Noyes berated Wall Street for a pessimism...
Weather Forecast. The amount of heat given off by the sun varies from day to day. For 30 years, declared Dr. Charles Greeley Abbot, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, members of the Institution have studied these variations in sun radiations in relation to the earth's temperature. For the last six years measurements made at Washington and other stations showed a definite temperature movement up or down whenever solar radiation increased or decreased. With a change in solar radiation of only .8%, temperature was affected as much as 5° F. This effect must be indirect, must operate through...
Fred Andrew Stone and Will Rogers, funnymen, gave Washington's Smithsonian Institution an oldtime nine-passenger Wild West stagecoach, built by a "G. Gerald, Blacksmith, Concord...
...quarry which will be the scene of their efforts was first worked several years ago by Dr. Walcott of the Smithsonian Institute, when this noted scientist, who has since died, exploited the region with unusual success. It appears that the rock structure of the quarry is of a very dense nature, and hence is extremely suited for the preservation of delicate fossils...
...Samuel S. Wyer investigated the government-operated hydroelectric power system in Ontario, concluded that it was not so good as it had been pictured by those in the U. S. favoring the same system. The Smithsonian Institution naively issued the Wyer report as one of its official documents. Power companies promptly seized upon this Smithsonian publication as a prime piece of authentic propaganda for use in their battle against the Progressive proposal for government operation of the Muscle Shoals plant. Nebraska's Senator Norris at that time denounced the Smithsonian for permitting itself to lend aid and comfort...