Word: surveys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Michelson, now the world famed physicist of Chicago University, has little by little whittled away the inaccuracies surrounding the calculated speed of light. In 1926, he set up two reflecting mirrors of his own design on Mount Wilson and San Antonio Peak near Pasadena, Calif. The U. S. Geodetic Survey measured the distance between his two instruments, about 22 miles, and assured him that its figure was accurate within one-third of an inch. Playing light from mirror, he timed the 44-mile round trip, calculated the speed of light...
...Harvard scientific authorities, most of them from the Graduate School of Business Administration, were among the hundreds of economists, educators, engineers, and others who assisted in extensive researches lasting over a year which resulted in the publishing of the survey of the National Bureau of Economic Research and the report of the Committee on Recent Economic Changes based upon it under the title of "Recent Economic Changes...
...Confirmed the nominations of: George T. McDermott, Orie L. Phillips, Curtis Dwight Wilbur as U. S. circuit judges; Julius Klein as Assistant Secretary of Commerce; William D. L. Starbuck and Charles McK. Saltzman as Federal Radio Commissioners; Raymond S. Patton as Director of the Coast & Geodetic Survey...
President Hoover is understood to have been eager for some time to obtain the services of the dean. He is an outstanding legal expert, is not identified with either side of the prohibition controversy, and is prominent in the direction of the Harvard Crime Survey in Suffolk Country...
...President has indicated that the commission he has in mind will conduct the most comprehensive investigation of its kind and will include the law's delays in the scope of its survey...