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Aboard the O-9 were Lieut. Howard J. Abbott, a line officer who had four years of submarine experience; Ensign Marks P. Wangsness, a 27-year-old reservist; and 31 crewmen, some of whom were youngsters just recruited. Seaman Charles L. Eagleton, 24, after a test dive in shallow water, had recently written his father: "Everything went wrong, but we've got it under control now." Seaman Francis Golden had told his father that the O-9 had sprung 19 leaks, that "water poured into her right away" on her first runs. Seaman Nathan Gersen had told his family...
Baly records some curious experiments. In his laboratory in 1928 he achieved the photosynthesis of formaldehyde, glucose, starch, other organic compounds in a test-tube solution of carbon dioxide. As a catalyst he used nickel carbonate instead of chlorophyll (which no chemist has yet got to work outside the veins of plants). But neither Baly nor any other chemist, using identical methods, has ever succeeded in repeating the experiment...
...Authors of the Cooperative Contemporary Affairs Test...
EXPLANATION This test is to enable Time readers to prove their own knowledge of Current Affairs. In recording answers, make no marks at all opposite questions. Use one of the answer sheets printed with the test. In all, answer sheets for four persons are provided. After taking the test, you can check your replies against the correct answers printed on the last page of this test, entering the number of your right answers as your score on your answer sheet. On previous Time Tests College Student scores have been reported averaging 60; Time Reader scores have averaged...
...Hand & On Order. One test of the existing system is what its exponents have been able to do under it. If the present, dependent naval air service were unable to meet the sudden, emergency demands for expansion, it certainly would require some drastic changes...