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...discovery spread, people came running with money to buy the mine. One gram of radium sells to-day for from $50,000 to $70,000. A group of Canadian doctors finally succeeded in buying several hundred acres around the discovery. Headed by Dr. Gordon Earle Richards, head of the X-ray department, Toronto General Hospital, and Dr. George William Ross, they organized Ontario Radium Corp. Last year they sent samples of their ore to England. There it was refined, meeting satisfactorily all necessary tests. The doctors found that one ton of their ore yielded 186 milligrams of radium. Belgian Congo...
Zaro Agha, Turk, whose passport says he is 156 years old (TIME, March 17), was knocked down and badly bruised by a Manhattan motorist. He was rushed to his hotel where X-ray showed all bones to be intact. Next day he sat up in bed, announced he felt well except for a pain in his stomach, ordered a hotdog and corn- on-the cob, to test a new set of false teeth...
...Edwin Charles Ernst, 45, of St. Louis, president of the new Radiological Research Institute, took the occasion to flay U. S. manufacturers of X-ray tubes. Bold was his charge: "The larger companies of unlimited financial resources apparently limit their researches and developments of improved apparatus or X-ray tubes to those improvements that promise large profits. One such organization in this country controls the patent rights to manufacture X-ray tubes exclusively** and as a result charges prohibitory prices [$125~$450] for the necessary tubes of the physicians who must purchase them for X-ray diagnosis and the treatment...
...satisfactory, certainly far inferior in quality to those made in Europe and much higher in price. Effective and beneficial research in the unlimited virgin field of radiology has thus been retarded for many years, perhaps more directly due to the practice of the company at present enjoying the X-ray tube monopoly by filing away useful patents which could and should have been employed by others in the interest of humanity and especially the treatment of cancer by a more effective X-ray radiation...
...There is no question but that the X-ray tubes can be materially improved and made more powerful. We now produce X-rays of from 6,000 to 250,000 volts and, if we went to 400,000 volts, we could get practically radium rays from an X-ray tube. We know results would be better. But we cannot go that high, for we lack tubes to stand it, and so far no one has dared to tackle their development because of the patent monopoly...