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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...company are as new to the U. S. as his own success. The average trust merely invests its funds in a long list of good stocks & bonds that any shrewd investor would buy if he had the money. In Britain, where this type of financial institution is so old that prime trust debentures sell on a par with government securities, the investment trust has more economic justification. There, as underwriters and investors, the big trusts often finance an entire enterprise during the early stages when profits may be biggest but risks are always greatest. Thus speculative British securities tend...
Super Contactor. Dr. Walter Joseph Podbielniak, Chicago consulting chemist, described the "super contactor" developed in his laboratories-a centrifugal machine for fractional distillation. A fractionator of the orthodox gravity type would have to be 700 ft. high, said he, to compete with his trim little machine in efficiency. Heart of the device is a conical coil which is rotated at such speed that the heated contents are squeezed by a force 1,500 times gravity. Outlets at the base of the spinning coil provide very fine separation by density. The super contactor was de-signed to extract from petroleum certain...
...through its Journal, gave him the following answer: "Man is used to the type of visual change or sensation produced by approaching an object, since his eyes are directed forward. In consequence, many people are affected by dizziness, nausea and vomiting with the eyes open in a fast moving conveyance such as a train. But there is no evidence, rational or experimental, indicating that a person sleeps better or more comfortably in a moving conveyance when the head is directed toward the direction of motion. . . . "The only possible influence on the body that could be affected by the position...
...same name written (but not acknowledged) by Enid Bagnold. Author of only four acknowledged books (a war diary, poems, a child's book, a novel), Author Bagnold has an English reputation that might surprise those who have never read her. A beauty of the approved English type, she is the wife of Sir Roderick Jones, Chairman of Reuters, No. 1 European news service, has four children, a good stable and a pleasant income. The wonder is that she should have written as much as she has. Before the War she was one of a small artistic set which included...
There is only one type of role as far as the star of "Rain" is concerned, and that is light comedy, such as "Something Gay." "I love to hear the audience laugh. That is the best applause of all. In a serious drama I never feel that the audience is relaxed, and so I am always strained and tense myself. In light roles I'm always perfectly at ease...