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Causes of Explosions, which surgeons guard against during operations under ether or ethylene anesthesia, include sparks and intense heat from lighting, radiation, or motor equipment; cauteries; static electricity caused by shuffling feet, rubbed hair, dry woolen blankets, frictioned rubber tubing...
...Commerce in a preliminary report of 1930 production. From the 1929 overproduction of 5,357 civil aircraft, the 1930 output fell to less than half-2,514. Military planes, practically all built to contract-order, upped from 677 to 710. The number of airplanes licensed and identified remained practically static at 9,818 on Jan. 1-22 less than a year ago. In other words, 25.6% of all U. S. civil aircraft went out of service during the year. Of the planes produced last year (exclusive of those exported), monoplanes forged ahead of biplanes (1,143 to 1,092) although...
JOHN MASON BROWN, onetime moving spirit in the Harvard Dramatic Club, dramatic critic for the New York Evening Post, and a member of the Board of Governors of the Cambridge School of the Drama has written a history of the modern theatre not from the static point of view of events but as an observer of the direction of living tendencies...
...huge synthetic food-producing plants, were centralized, far removed from residential and play centres. Travel was practically instantaneous: in cars "magnetically levitated through vacuum tunnels." No animal food was eaten. The life span was prolonged to the limits of usefulness-then the worn-out person was "removed." Population was static, births controlled, hygiene enforced. Still men were not happy. They dreamed of an almost forgotten time when their ancestors roamed the earth's surface; their thoughts turned to other possibly habitable planets. Expedition after expedition, in projectile-like cars rocketed out through sidereal space, never to be heard...
...Santa Fe Trail (Paramount). This is another western, beautifully photographed, nicely acted, but static and thoroughly dull as entertainment. Taken from Hal G. Evart's Saturday Evening Post serial, Spanish Acres, it is in effect a long argument as to whether some sheep owned by a U. S. boy are to be grazed on land owned by a gullible Spanish rancher. Richard Arlen is the hero, Rosita Moreno is the rancher's daughter. One element of comic relief is the occasional intrusion of a young boy and girl who have the fearful coyness inevitable in camera-trained children...