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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...absorb Advance-Rumely Corp., only the man in Wall Street seemed greatly con- cerned. Allis-Chalmers follows only General Electric and Westinghouse in the field of large electrical equipment, manufactures also a diversified line of farm machinery and machines for general industrial use. World's largest hydroelectric unit is the 70,000-horsepower engine built by Allis-Chalmers for Niagara Falls Power Co. Yet even in 1929 Allis-Chalmers showed a net of only $4,300,000, made but $3,600,000 in 1930 and for the first quarter of the present year netted approximately $500,000. Meanwhile, Advance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Machines Merge | 4/27/1931 | See Source »

...clever device Chairman Robert Andrews Millikan of the California Institute of Technology was able to measure the electrical charge of the electron, the indivisible unit of all electricity. For that Dr. Millikan won a 1923 Nobel Prize. Last week two other Caltech men-Jesse W. M. du Mond and Harry Kirkpatrick- reported the perfection of another device, to measure the speed of electrons moving within atoms. A serviceable description of the structure of an atom is this: At its core are, according to the particular kind of atom, 1 to 238 protons (positive charges of electricity). The hydrogen atom (simplest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Electron Speeds | 4/13/1931 | See Source »

...present it is expected that each unit of the Freshman Instrumental Clubs will perform at the Smoker. There is also a possibility that movies may be given, and other speakers are being considered. The definite time for the affair has not yet been determined, although it is to take place in the evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: APRIL 9 IS DATE CHOSEN FOR FRESHMAN SMOKER IN UNION | 3/31/1931 | See Source »

...Foch memoirs have little space to devote to the U. S. Army. He insisted that he always favored U. S. troops fighting as a unit under their own commander, made no reference to the bickerings with General Pershing which the latter has been reporting daily in the U. S. press. The Battle of St. Mihiel (a U. S. show) he considered "a splendid success." But he was critical of the Argonne advance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Apologia | 3/30/1931 | See Source »

...this very fact Muir sees the ways of peace. He says that the world today is a political and economic unit and he hopes that these two forces will bring about a social integration that will eliminate the possibility of war. It is this unity that makes possible the League of Nations, says Muir, and it is the League which will make possible eternal peace, if such a thing can be obtained...

Author: By E. E. M., | Title: BOOKENDS | 3/25/1931 | See Source »

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