Opium Smoking Remains Big Business In Thailand
Bangkok reports that opium smoking there remains a lucrative, legal enterprise under government supervision, with licenses issued to roughly 200,000 addicts and about 1,000 dens. The trade brings millions annually, supported by Sino-Thai laborers, drivers, and coolies, and continues despite past bans and international pressure.
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Thailand
Bangkok
INS
Seato Alliance
Sarit ‘Thanarat
Pibu Songgram
Pibul
Samlor
Yunnan
Korea
Japan
United States
Europe
Ultrasonic Recording Unit Runs X Rays On Bones
Chicago X rays made with an ultrasonic recorder test atomic reactor fuel elements at Argonne National Laboratory. Scanner waves over certain areas show as white on the recorder paper, revealing cavities. Variations between flesh and bone are recorded similarly on the electrosensitive paper.
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Chicago
Argonné National Laboratory
Pioneering Women Challenged Mental Health Laws
Dr Francis J Gerty analyzes 19th century efforts by Dorothea Dix Elizabeth Packard and Mary Todd Lincoln to reform commitment laws. Packard’s struggle led to personal liberty laws and jury trials, easing involuntary confinement, while Dix campaigned for asylum expansion. Lincoln’s era saw her civil trial and public scrutiny influence later reforms to protect women from unjust confinement. The piece notes Manteno and Jacksonville hospitals and revisits cruel treatment in early asylums, urging cautious, humane policy shifts.
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Chicago
Francis J. Gerty
American Psychiatric Association
Gerty
University of Ilinois Medical School
Dorothea Lynde Dix
Elizabeth W. Packard
Mary Todd Lincoln
United States
Packard
Lincoln
Miss Dix
East Cambridge
Mass
House of Corrections
New England
Tlinois
Jacksonville
Jacksonville Hospital
Gerry
Worcester, Mass., State Hospital
Theopolis Packard
Manteno
Con Bregalious
Andrew MacParland
Trias
Robert
Belleville
New Process Aids Study Of Molecules
Chicago vibrational frequencies of molecules are now computed faster thanks to a complex mathematical method developed by Singis Institute of Technology scientists. Previously researchers substituted constants from similar molecules and spent months testing differences, but numerical values are now assigned to constants recurring across large molecules.
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Chicago
Singis Institute of Technology
Kick sorter aids rain drop analysis at Atom Fair
An ultra sensitive device named kick sorter, a nuclear spec tract analyzer, was unveiled at the 1938 Atom Fair by Bendix Aviation. It electronically splits spectra into up to 1000 parts to identify isotopes, with field use possible. The orange-crate sized instrument is 88 per cent transistorized and weighs 150 pounds, usable in physics and biology for isotope identity and radiation energy measurement, and can classify droplet sizes in aerosols and sprays.
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Chicago
Canadian Atomic Energy Commission
Bendix Aviation Corporation
United States
Computer Devices of Canada,Ltd
Bendix
Space Man Will Require Special Aide
Space travel demands a sanitation engineer to keep breath and life support. Dr Linvil G Rich notes reclamation of carbon dioxide from exhalation is vital for space travelers. He cites air pollution and public health needs on Earth, and a national shortage of sanitation engineering master’s degrees.
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Chicago
UPI
Alice
Linvil G. Rich
Thinais Institute of ‘Technology
Earth
Imore
Rich
United States
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