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...beginning to call attention to less optimistic facts about the New Deal : General Johnson had said the U. S. would have a setback within two months unless wages were promptly raised: brokers' loans had nearly tripled in three months (reached $967,000,000), showing how much speculation was afoot. Moreover the dollar had risen: the pound sterling had fallen to $4.64, result of Britain having offered (see p. 14 ) to replace her dollar bonds with new pound-bonds at the rate of ?260 per $1,000 ($3.85 to the pound). Steel output, after a continuous three-month rise...
...Second. Travel afoot as much as possible; otherwise use an automobile of the useful (as distinguished from the de luxe) type; better yet, use a motorcycle...
Sportsman. Like another party of Britons under Explorer Hugh Ruttledge, who were crawling toward the same goal afoot, the Mt. Everest flyers were engaged basically in a sporting proposition. Others had ascended to the stratosphere, descended to the bathysphere, flown all the oceans. The Houston-Mt. Everest group surmounted the last superlative. A famed sportsman was in their midst-Lord Clydesdale. Plump Lady Houston, widow of a shipping tycoon, who underwrote the British Schneider Cup entry in 1931 (TIME, Sept. 14, 1931) gave her name and money to the expedition. Lord Clydesdale gave it éclat. Until last January...
...Proceedings of the U. S. Congress have been broadcast on special occasions-President Hoover's speech on Washington's Birthday, 1932; the Coolidge Memorial service last January: the first day of this year's special session. Plans are afoot, but strongly opposed, to install permanent broadcasting equipment in both House end Senate...
...laid north of Point Barrow, Alaska. Chee-Ak comes courting Kyatuk as winter seems to break. The sanguine tribesmen have a food orgy. They are stupefied with blubber when winter suddenly closes in again. As the polar storm screams monotonously Chee-Ak suggests that they starve afoot. According to tribal routine they seal the aged into their igloos to die. Kyatuk's father is so left but Kyatuk protests. Chee-Ak backs her up. The tribe's offended gods dog the march with bad luck, nearly crushing them all in the polar icepack, until Kyatuk's father...