Word: totalizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...observable universe-which may comprise almost all of the total universe -is a vast sphere approximately 1,000,000,000 light-years across (one light-year equals about six trillion miles). Human knowledge of the outermost fringes of this sphere is mostly due to the work of Astronomers Edwin Powell Hubble and Milton La Salle Humason, whose long looks into space are made possible by Mt. Wilson Observatory's 100-inch telescope. Even with this giant instrument, catching the spectra of far-off island universes has required all-night exposures for several nights...
...like that of other celestial bodies is impeded by the distorting effect of earth's atmosphere. An observer at an altitude of 25,000 ft., however, has two-thirds of the effective atmosphere beneath him. To that altitude a Pan-American Grace Airliner mounted over Peru during the total eclipse of last June (TIME, June 14) and from it Major Albert W. Stevens, stratosphere balloonist, made unusual photographs of the eclipsed sun which he showed last week at Manhattan's Hayden Planetarium, after they had been given a scientific bill of health by a conference of 50 astronomers...
...cost up to $40 apiece to rent), dozens of beaters ($2 each a day), a loader for each gun ($2.50 a day), shells, servants, tips, food. To bring down one grouse costs between $5 and $10. This year's Glorious Twelfth, however, dawned unpromisingly with rentals expected to total only about $1,500,000, as compared to the $7,500,000 of a peak year like 1929. That indicated that Scotsmen would be shooting a great many of their own birds this year...
...crop. Apples come in three types (dessert, culinary, cider) and some 7,500 U. S. varieties are grown on a large-scale in all but nine States.† New York once (1900-08) produced 50% of the crop, but Washington now leads, producing over a sixth of the total. New York and Virginia are rivals for second, the honor going to whichever gets the better weather. Before 1870 most growing was done by farmers with small orchards. Since then growing has gradually turned to larger and larger units. Commercial orchards now range from ten to 2,500 acres, with some...
After three years with the company, each Joslyn officer and employe, must begin to pay from 2.5% to 5% of his salary into a trust fund to which the company gives not less than 10% of its annual earnings and not more than four times the total contribution from employes. On retiring because of disability or age, Joslyn workers receive the fruits of their savings and the company's profits in a lump sum which often not only provides for them but makes them comparatively rich. The fund now totals $742,600 and payments totaling $266,000 have already...