Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pleased with last week's account of Capitol doings? Pleased is too mild a word. I was foaming over with delight; at the victory for the Republocrats, but even more so by your absorbing, fun-provoking story of the fracas. How did we ever manage before TIME arrived on the scene...
Heavy Industry. Coal, iron & steel and engineering firms (including armaments) account for 59 Tory M.P.s holding 109 directorships, giving heavy industry the heaviest representation among Conservatives in Parliament. Sir Alfred Beit, descendant of diamond-mining South African pioneers, is a director of airplane-manufacturing firms as well as of an African railway. Lieut. Colonel Henry Guest, Viscount Wimborne's brother, is a director of the $75,000,000 Guest, Keen & Nettlefold's iron, steel and coal company, of Powell Duffryn Associated Collieries with a capacity of 20,000,000 tons annually. The Rt. Hon. Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett...
...Large-flock commercial breeders account for only a fraction of the total output. Largest egg factory is California's Runnymede Farm. Its top capacity: 325,000 laying hens...
...spite of laymen's hopes, the question of life on Mars will probably not be solved when Caltech's 200-inch telescope gets into action (perhaps next year). The giant instrument will show Mars larger but not much clearer, on account of atmospheric distortion. The light by which earthlings see Mars is reflected sunlight-and that means light which has passed twice through the Martian atmosphere and once through the Earth...
...longer a newspaper man." But Ex-Reporter Sheean made an even better living by writing slick-paper magazine stories, historical novels with up-to-date political implications, touring the U. S. lecture circuit. Last year he turned to personalized history again. Not Peace but a Sword, his firsthand account of that disastrous twelvemonth for the democracies, March 1938-March 1939, shows that he is as brilliant, as partisan a reporter as ever...