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...starting point where the elapsed time is recorded while others escape into space. From this data the heights and densities of the layers can be calculated. Of the three major layers, said Dr. Berkner, the lowest (E) averages 65 miles high, the next (F1) 130 miles, the uppermost (F2) 190 miles. In summer the densities of these three, from top to bottom, are 16,000,000 ions, 5,300,000 ions and 2,800,000 ions per cubic inch. During the present sunspot cycle ionization has increased about 50% in the E and F1 layers, about 200% in the high...
...tariff discussions all have been proposed, all have been acclaimed by millions and all have spent time and wasted money with little to show for it. In short the nations of the world have talked, but few have acted in concert or with the aim of peace or concord uppermost in their respective and devious minds...
Iron Men (by Francis Gallagher; Norman Bel Geddes, producer) presents a scene never before approximated for verisimilitude in the theatre-the uppermost steel skeleton of a skyscraper under construction. Not content with that, Designer-Producer Bel Geddes has put his scene into operation. A giant crane looming up into the flies brings up six or seven big I-beams which are bolted into place before the eyes of the audience. In robust defiance of the "pusher" (man with the blueprints), four steelworkers ride on the ball attached to the crane-hook. Only flaws in this extraordinary feat of artistic naturalism...
From a showboat at the Great Lakes Exposition in Cleveland one night last week the three presidents of the country's three biggest steel companies successively addressed the nation. Studiously they avoided any reference to the subject uppermost in their minds-the coming battle over unionization of the steel industry...
...soil (TIME, Sept. 2, 1935). Early last June disillusioned Bill Bullitt returned to the U. S. At the Patrick Henry Bicentennial celebration in Hanover County, Va. in July, appearing as the President's representative but with every listener keenly aware that the subject of Russia had long been uppermost in his mind, he declared...