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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crabs, can live in ten drops of water. It is small enough for its whole body to be studied through a microscope and transparent enough to be projected upon a magic lantern screen (see cut, p. 32). These qualities make Daphnia a fine biological subject on which to test drugs, Professor Viehoever recently realized. For Professor Viehoever, Daphnia solved an important strychnine puzzle, he enthusiastically told the American Association for the Advancement of Science at Denver this week. This bitter, crystalline product of nux vomica is used as a tonic, stimulant and antidote in medicine. The effects of strychnine have...
...mint-jelly sea of Bermuda last week air tourists flew for the first time as Pan American and Imperial Airways simultanteously began passenger service from Port Washington, L.I. with one plane apiece each way per week.† This week Imperial was scheduled to send a flying boat on first test hops all the way across the Atlantic between the new airbases at Botwood, Newfoundland and Foynes, Ireland (TIME, Nov. 30; March...
...most interesting of the new Army planes is a gigantic Boeing scheduled for first test flights this week at Seattle. A four-motored, mid-wing monoplane of lines similar to the famed Boeing "flying fortress" launched two years ago, of which the Army ordered 13 at a reputed $196,000 each, the new bomber is much bigger, much more efficient. The new Boeing is reported to weigh 20 tons, have a speed above 250 m.p.h. with eight tons of bombs...
...Just how we are to get back to self-reliance and quit demanding so much of the Government will test the wits and ingenuity of all of us. Habits are not easily broken, and we have gotten into the habit of expecting everything of the Federal Government. The longer we put off correcting this, the more dangerous it will get and the more difficult to meet...
...legislation to outlaw block-booking and to divorce theatre ownership from producers and distributors. Such bills of divorcement bogged down in Ohio, Minnesota, Michigan, Nebraska and Illinois. One did pass in North Dakota, where it goes into effect in a year. The big producers are marshaling their forces to test its constitutionality in court. Last week North Dakota's Governor William A. Langer journeyed to Milwaukee to promise the Allied delegates that his State will bear the cost of the defense...