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...College, Chicago), would like to explain science to the average citizen, dispel its "mysteries and marvels." In his latest book, Invitation to Experiment, published last week (Dutton; $2.50), he lures his readers into kitchen and bathroom, where they can dope out for themselves "the things that make the universe tick." With clever drawings and photographs, he simplifies molecular motion, gravitation, optics, everything in physics up to (but not including) relativity. Samples...
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...three greatest automobile producers in the U. S.; after long illness; in Great Neck, Long Island. Son of a railroad engineer, Machinist Chrysler in 1905 bought an automobile with $700 savings, a $4,300 loan, kept taking it apart and reassembling it until he found what made it tick. In 1911 he resigned a $12,000-a-year job as general manager of American Locomotive Co. to work for Buick at half the pay. Two-fisted, paternal Tycoon Chrysler drove himself and his men, thought "the one reasonably sure way to get ahead was to do just a little...
...Invincible" Armada, 130 ships transporting 24,000 men, passed last week without incident. That day had been singled out in unofficial German predictions and warnings as Britain's Doomsday. But for yet another week, from each new day to each new hour, Britons watched the time tick past, and wondered: When? The monstrous irony of last week's waiting was the way waiting Britons had to fight their own Government in defense of the same liberties which Germany threatened. A people's revolt, reflected in both Parliament and press, singled out two Cabinet members for special attack...
...last week, the 26,454-ton, 723-foot, 24-knot America was turned over to tall, horse-faced John Merryman Franklin, U. S. Lines president. As his pen lifted from the $7,328,140 mortgage, an estimated $750,000 worth of yearly interest and amortization charges began to tick. Shipowner Franklin had already paid in $4,396,629 for his ship. The Maritime Commission was standing a third of her cost, and the rest was a Maritime Commission loan. Now that he had her, what was he going to do with...