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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...known systems of material bodies, from that of the atom which is a millionth of a millionth of an inch to the cloud of super-galaxies of a thousand million, trillion miles have been classified for the first time according to mass by Professor Harlow Shapley, Director of Harvard's Astronomical Observatory. The classification comes as a result of long research and careful investigation by Professor Shapley...
...natural gas supplies of the U. S. are rapidly approaching exhaustion and the known oil pools are estimated to hold only a six-year reserve against the present demand. But there are deposited in the U. S. over one and a half trillion tons of bituminous coal, a little more than half of the whole world's fields.* It is tempting, hoarded energy which industry has been demanding, more and more insistently, be transmuted into forms other than heat...
...Five Trillions. Whirring, chomping post-War money presses inflated the Hungarian banknote circulation to a stupendous total: five trillion korona. Peasants with a comfortable pre-War nest egg of 14,000 paper korona ($2,800) discovered that they possessed the equivalent of about $20 when the korona was at last stabilized by the able U. S. fiscal administrator of Hungary, Jeremiah Smith (TIME, July 5 et ante...
...experiments on animals, including man, and made countless observations while ever searching for some explanation of what life really is. They have decided that life is an electric phenomenon. For nine years they studied living cells. They learned that every one of the 28,000,000,000,000 (28 trillion) cells in the human body are alike in that each is a tiny electric cell. The positive pole is an ultra-minute acidic nucleus held within an oily (lipoid) film.* The rest of the cell, the cytoplasm, is slightly alkalin in reaction. Consequently a minute electric potential...
...Exact calculation shows that if we had five trillion cables of steel, each a foot in diameter and the steel capable of lifting thirty tons to the square inch of the cross section, this whole giant forest of steel cable would be stretched to the breaking point to hold the moon in its orbit about the earth. To hold the earth in its orbit about the sun would require an 11-inch cable of such steel on each square foot of hemispherical cross section of our globe, which practically would cover the earth's surface with such a forest...