Scientific American Magazine Vol 145 Issue 6

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 145, Issue 6

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Features

The Chemist Looks at Business Cycles

D. H. Killeffer

A New Way to Control Rickets

James A. Tobey

Space as Yet Unfathomed

Henry Norris Russell

Better Engines for Navy Planes

C. A. Pownall

Speeding up Railway Freight

Man-Made Oases in American Deserts

As population has increased, so, too, has the demand for water—and the controversies over who owns it

Elwood Mead

Poland Becomes a Maritime Nation

Jacques Boyer

Has Forest Conservation Created a False Alarm?

American Forests, Washington, D.C.

Wilson Compton

Modern Coal for Modern Markets

Albert A. Hopkins

Trademarks in Disguise

Sylvester J. Liddy

How Stable is the Earth's Crust?

Harlan T. Stetson

From the Archeologist's Note Book, December 1931

Butterfly Faking--a New Industry

Stone Age Man's World-Wide Culture

J. Reid Moir

Index to Volume 145, July-December, 1931

Departments

Across the Editor's Desk, December 1931

Back of Frontispiece, December 1931

Where Bacteria Hold the Center of the Stage

Our Point of View, December 1931

New Waterproof Lime, First Translations of Maya Glyphs and more

Radio Tube Suits Settled, "Developing" Cream Advertised as a Body Builder, and more

Books Selected by the Editors, December 1931