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...York unable to understand the front page of his newspaper. Vocational training: Our entire scheme . . . must be revamped. ... To this day we're teaching boys to be wood-workers. But are we training them to be steelworkers or experts in the fields of refrigeration, neon lighting, ultraviolet rays? We are not. Johnny Jones: Our schools today are enormous. In the DeWitt Clinton High School, for example, there are about 11,000 pupils. In that mass of youngsters we've got to get hold of Johnny Jones and fit him for his world and for his time...
...favorite was Soprano Marion Talley, a local telegrapher's daughter whose career Storeman Seigmund Harzfeld helped to finance. This year's music chief is doughty Powell Campbell Groner, president of Kansas City Public Service Co. Burned though he was from going to sleep under an ultraviolet lamp, he appeared last week in Convention Hall to introduce the orchestra which the Kansas City Times headlined as a "triumph in music...
...More ultraviolet rays reach the earth...
...seven hours. Soldiers and sailors paraded the field. Massed bands countermarched. Radio loudspeakers brought from Manhattan the voice of Professor Arthur Holly Compton. scientific director of the flight, wishing Commander Settle luck in breaking Auguste Piccard's 10-mi. altitude record and in gathering data on cosmic and ultraviolet rays. A major-general had the honor of starting the hydrogen gas hissing into the acre of white rubberized bag-biggest ever built. An admiral saw to the hooking on of the spherical gondola made of metal ⅛-in. thick. Mrs. Rufus Cutler Dawes, wife of the president...
...hardens aluminum alloys), may be an obscure cause of rickets. When the experimenters added as little as 2% of beryllium carbonate to the diet of rats, the rats grew humpbacked, wobbled as they walked, showed practically all the other signs of rickets. No amount of cod-liver oil, viosterol, ultraviolet light or sunlight improved their condition. Best deduction is that the beryllium combines with phosphorus, which is essential for healthy bones and muscles, forms an unassimilable beryllium phosphate, thus starves the body of phosphorus...