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...Died. Eugene G. Northington. 53, retired lieutenant colonel of the U. S. Army Medical Corps who as a pioneer experimenter with x-rays first established their danger to the user; of cancer of the limbs caused by too frequent x-rays exposure; in San Francisco. Calif. To check the spread of cancerous tissue he had army surgeons operate on him 164 times, lost both arms...
This failure on the part of the authorities to discriminate between the year-round user and the part time user is illogical. It cannot be correctly excused on economic grounds. The total receipts would be larger and the number of men buying participation tickets would increase it the price were scaled down to correspond to the period...
...substance to be analyzed. The current which flows through the system increases steadily by definite increments. Substances react in a regular way to the current. By means of a mirror galvanometer, the polarograph marks a chart when reactions occur. Professor Heyrovsky & colleagues have prepared scores of polarograph charts. Every user of a polarograph furnishes charts of more substances. By comparing the chart of an unknown substance with available polarograph records, the investigator soon solves his analysis problem...
...famed among other things for having witnessed and vividly described the hanging of John Brown at Harper's Ferry. Margaret Halstead's father, friend of Lawyer Cravath, was until recently U. S. Consul General in London. His strapping soprano daughter was a nervous, inexperienced siren as Venus in Tannhäuser last week, but she sang the difficult music accurately, often beautifully. Critics who might have deplored her lack of experience put her down instead as a promising young singer who in time might become an asset big in drawing power as well as body...
...progressive Wisconsin jolted the utility industry by ordering Wisconsin Telephone Co., 100%-owned by A. T. & T., to reduce its rates 12½%. Behind the order was a theory new in rate-fixing: that a utility may charge for its services only what they are worth to the user regardless of the effect upon the company; Depression has reduced the value of telephone service. Under the new rates Wisconsin Telephone would earn not the time-honored return of 8% upon its investment...