General Electric invited the American Institute of Chemical Engineers to hold its midsummer meeting in Schenectady last week and meanwhile watch Science working for Wealth. General Electric scientists demonstrated:
X-Ray Farm— Plaything of the General Electric staff is their monstrous x-ray farm on the laboratory roof. C. P. Haskins exposed grapefruit, orange, aster and cotton seeds to x-rays from two to 16 minutes. The grapefruit blossomed five weeks after planting. In nature first blossoming re quires five years' growth. On the contrary, sweet orange seed...
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