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...relief dollars two feet wide greet them. A storage and assay depot as well as a mint, the new building began last week to receive some $400,000,000 in gold and silver from the smoke-stained old San Francisco mint at Fifth & Mission. The two storage vaults, 48 x 78 and 28 x 52 ft., are equipped with triple-locked doors, wired with microphones so a central guard room hears every sound in the vaults. Trucks enter the mint through an anteroom guarded by a pair of steel portcullis doors of which only one can be open...
Volney W. Foster, Fellowes D. Gardner, William T. Glendinning, Lincoln Godfrey, Jr., John MacD. Graham, Hubert H. Hauck, S. Trafford Hicks, Jr., Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., Francis Keppel, Francis X. Leary, John P. Lee, George F. Lowman...
...splendid and the most pumped-up party that Europe has seen this century. Prince Frederik and his princess were returning from it for another and very different kind of party: the Silver (25th) Jubilee of the reign of the world's tallest monarch. Frederik's father Christian X, King of Denmark and Iceland. The Wends & The Goths, Duke of Schleswig, Holstein, Stormarn, of the Dithmarschen. Lauenburg, and Oldenburg...
...Denmark nods to civilians, salutes ladies, chats with small boys or truckdrivers- and obeys traffic lights-not with the self-conscious condescension that is forced upon British royalty but with the mutually respectful understanding of a company's top executive and a minor employe. In this role Christian X has been one of Denmark's most valued Kings, for his people rate him as sensible as he is imposing. His preference for living in the Amalienborg Palace, one of four identical rococo buildings which rub shoulders with shops, hotels and private houses, instead of in vast Christiansborg Palace...
...number of years physicists and engineers have been working on the problem of providing a source of very high voltage X-Rays which would approximate in wave length the gamma rays of radium, and which could be produced in intensities equaling the output of several hundred grams of this element...