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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...carbon atoms of which the diamond is composed. Propelled by the pressure of the 1,000 volts, the electron darts along one of the straight channels which run between the atoms of a diamond crystal. This motion sets up an electrical pulsation that can be detected easily by various standard instruments or by an ordinary telephone headset...
...turning Del Monte into a postgraduate school for naval officers originated entirely with the naval authorities and the matter came to me without any direct or indirect promotion. Incidentally, it is not a "Little Annapolis." Del Monte was selected only after the most careful survey of innumerable sites in various parts of the country...
Swamp fever (or equine infectious anemia) was almost unknown in New England until last spring. It may have been brought in by an infected horse shipped from Florida. The infection had been spread presumably by blood-sucking insects. Cases began to pop up at various New England tracks, chiefly at Rockingham...
Meanwhile, the Federal Trade Commission was quietly gathering material on another form of price-fixing. Prominent in the commission's reports to Congress are the various "fair trade" laws passed by the states to protect small businessmen from undercutting by their larger competitors. New York last week provided a fertile field for the commission's study. Fixing of retail liquor prices, which had been permissible in the State of New York, became mandatory. After Sept. 1, customers would have to pay $6.10 for some brands of whiskey which the week before many stores had sold...
...turning varies directly with latitude; objects near the equator are carried daily around the earth's whole circumference, moving at over 1,000 m.p.h. Objects near the poles are carried around more slowly in smaller, tighter circles. The direction and variation of this circling can be felt by various man-made instruments, such as the gyrocompass. Why shouldn't pigeons feel it, too? If they could, they would have, along with their "magnetic compass," a satisfactory navigating instrument...