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...beads and trinkets. In 1803, France's Louisiana Territory (827,987 sq. mi.) cost a monstrous $15,000,000. Last week the U. S. Supreme Court awarded Oregon's Klamath and Modoc Indians and the Yahooshin band of Snakes $5,313,347 for an area one six-thousandth the size of the Louisiana Territory, inhabited by one one-thousandth as many people as Manhattan now holds. Reason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Klamath, Modoc & Snake | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

...Scherman's economic theory is as simple as his conclusions are fantastic. He defines economics as a promise economy depending for its smooth running on mutual honesty. His startling discovery is that the scheme does work, that men are honest. Thus the employer keeps his promise, within a "thousandth of a per cent" to pay his employes. Employers, manufacturers, retailers, tenants, banks, even "soulless" corporations and installment buyers-all these, says Author Scherman, pay their financial promises within one and one-half per cent of perfect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Easy Economics | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

...Standards called the difference between the British inch and the U. S. inch "intolerable." The new standard will reduce the inch by 1/508,001 of its present length. Pointing out that the most precise industrial measurements (of wrist pins for piston rods, etc.) are accurate only within one ten-thousandth of an inch, Director Briggs said: "Industry from a practical standpoint will not realize that a change has been made because the change is too small." Not discussed was the effect of a shortened inch on longer measurements: A mile would be approximately ⅛ inch shorter, the U. S. would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: New Inch | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

...watched," he later wrote, "I began to wonder how the world must appear to a ladybug: what the sensation would be if my six feet of height dwindled down and down until I was hardly a quarter of an inch long; if I shrank to a thousandth, a ten-thousandth ... a millionth of my present bulk. Like Alice, I began to feel I was 'shutting up like a telescope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Puck's Backyard | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

...Association for the Advancement of Science was holding its annual meeting, and informed the whole scientific world 1) that a virus was a huge molecule composed basically of nitrogen, carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, weighing 17,000,000 times as-much as a hydrogen molecule, and measuring one seven-hundred-thousandth of an inch in diameter; 2) that he had crystallized a typical virus (which causes mosaic diseases in tobacco plants) by chemical treatment; 3) that he had modified the virus molecule chemically and produced other types of plant disease; 4) that he had made the molecule inactive. All this proved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Viruses Analyzed | 7/5/1937 | See Source »

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