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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cyclotron is a type of atom-smasher which speeds atomic projectiles up to enormous energies by whirling them in magnetic fields. When the University of California's smart, jovial Physicist Ernest Orlando Lawrence invented it about a decade ago, it was used for the purest sort of research in experimental physics. Three years ago the cyclotron switched from pure science to practical science when it was discovered that beams of neutrons produced by the cyclotron destroyed cancer cells in mice. A regular program of medical cyclotron work was set afoot, in charge of the inventor's brother...
Last fortnight in Manhattan observers looked sharp at a promising cheap-book experiment. It was called "Pocket Books," consisted of ten former bestsellers, printed in full-size type on good paper, with washable paper binding. Priced at 25?, Pocket Books were the best-looking, most readable paperbound books so far. Promising also was the publisher. tall, dynamic, 44-year-old Robert Fair de Graff...
...will weigh 1,700 pounds and be powered by a four-cylinder Ford engine (of the type first used in the famed Model A) driving all its four wheels...
...water where the Phenix disappeared is 365 to 375 feet deep. Built to stand pressures down to 330 feet, the hull of the submarine probably collapsed when it plunged to the bottom. Persistent oil slicks on the surface confirmed this theory. France, which possesses no escape bells of the type used in the Squalus rescue, had just opened negotiations with the U. S. for the purchase of four, but even if one had been available it would have been useless...
...According to Dr. Esmond Ray Long of Philadelphia, the type of T. B. which strikes Negroes, most susceptible group in the U. S. population to respiratory diseases, is the same as that which strikes whites. T. B. develops and spreads more quickly among Negroes, and they die more quickly...