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...Their father takes up with a succession of trained nurses, asks each one to be his wife. With imperious disregard for dignity, he lets a village shyster cheat him out of the family fortune. Furious at his children's well-meant attempts to interfere, he gives orders for workmen to tear down his chateau, remodel it to suit his whims. He walks through his woods dressed in a smock painted to look like leaves, puts a green napkin over his head, sits down on a stone to make friends with the lizards. The efforts of William Colombe...
Inventor Macneil began his pursuit of infra-red rays as an undergraduate at the University of Michigan. During the War he considered how to apply his researches to a nautical instrument, fixed on the sextant. Because no U. S. workmen could make the delicate apparatus required, he went to Holland. In February 1931 he guided the Mauretania across the Atlantic with his thermoelectric sextant, which was later adopted by the British Admiralty. Last week he announced he was ready to begin commercial production. A ship will need but one thermoelectric sextant which will cost about $2,000 instead...
Mercury Detector. General Electric built a large, efficient generator at Hartford, operated by mercury vapor instead of steam (TIME. July 8, 1929), is building another at Schenectady. The mercury boilers are dangerous because they might leak mercury, poison the workmen. A delicate mercury detector was in order. It is a yellow plaque of selenium sulfide. A few drops of mercury in a furnace through which pass more than 200,000 Ib. of flue gas an hour, said A. J. Nerad, blackens the yellow plaque. The degree of blackening indicates the amount of mercury present. A photo-electric cell measures...
...bulk of Dr. Walker's time and energy has gone to his big workmen's compensation practice. Employers must protect their employes against injury, a necessity which gives employment to specialists like Dr. Walker. Testified he: ''When there was work going on, why I saw the claim men." Dr. Walker hired doctors and nurses to tend this vast, personally solicited industrial accident practice. Cases which his hirelings could not handle he farmed out to other doctors in industrial work...
...accident work of the four city physicians was tremendous. Morris L. Strauss, assistant corporation counsel in charge of the City Workmen's Compensation Bureau, who designated the four, generally accepted their bills without question. The doctors themselves remarkably often did not know for what they were charging. Dr. Feinberg, for example, charged $47 for four x-rays of a workman's hand, and nine office calls "for repair of wounds." The man had an injured right toe. Dr. Cassasa once charged for "strapping a foot" of an employe who had hurt his left thumb. Another employe...