Star Streaming
a recently disthe heavens are moving through space in the heavens are moving through space in one another at an angle of 100 degrees. and much study is being given to the na- The discovery is thought to have importure of the stars in the two streams. The discovery is thought to have impora 's entire and financial leader, was born at Muland financial leader, was born at Multure of the stars in the two streams. ceived studied for a short time at the Berlin School of Mines. At twenty he inherited commercial education and large coal-mine interests, which he rap- School of Mines. At twenty he inherited tuted 10 per cent of Germany's studied for a short time at the Berlin he played a leading part in the organizacoal production. During the World War tion of German industries and increased his personal wealth enormously. He acquired great shipping and other interests and purchased the control of many newspapers, among them the "Deutsche Alleorgan of the government. In politics he and purchased the control of many news- quired great shipping and other interests allied himself with the Pan-German popular party after the war and became a organ of the government. In politics he powerful influence on German cabinets and all government decisions through his vast industrial and financial interests. man industrial organization was the convast industrial and financial interests. Among his pioneer achievements in Ger- Among his pioneer achievements in Gerleading on to larger and larger plans for the integration of industry and the joint with the direction of individual industries ownership of utilities by producers, conleft in private control. leading on to larger and larger plans for STRATOSPHERE STRATOSPHERE or ISOTHERMAL LAYER, a region of the upper atmosphere within which investigations have shown that the temperature ceases to fall with altitude. Its average height above the earth is between six and seven miles. Its thickness has not been definitely ascertained. It is free from clouds and its wind and air currents are markedly different from those of the lower atmosphere. STRAYS or STATIC, erratic electrical disturbances in wireless telegraphy whose origin is not yet fully known.
Some strays appear to be due to distant lightning discharges. Others, according to present theory, are caused by electrical disturbances in the upper atmosphere.