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...Colorado River's Boulder Dam has six giant generators which turn out 82.500 kilowatts each. Among hydroelectric turbine machines, these hold a record for power. But Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. pointed out last week that "records don't last long among water wheels." The company has started work on three generators rated at 108,000 kilowatts apiece...
...Protestants have sent missionaries to Asia, Africa and the isles of the seas for more than a century. This missionary enterprise throughout the world, despite the late lean years, still spends $50,000,000 a year. Yet there has persisted a vague belief among average uninformed Christians that the main job of missions is to teach ABC's to, wipe the noses of, and put pants on little black, brown and yellow people whose conception of Christianity is about that of a Sunday-school squidget...
...crash, slept on park benches until he got a job on the News. One of his first News stories was about the feast of St. Dismas, which MacMurphy had a hard time persuading his managing editor to run. It was printed in the back of the paper, among the want...
...concert in April, D. A. R. officials said they were sorry but the hall was taken. When alternative dates were suggested, the D. A. R. frostily replied that all the dates were taken. Sympathetic protests began to pour in from all sides: last week they reached peak proportions. Among the most impressive: that of the American Union of Democracy, in which Walter Damrosch, Deems Taylor and a Who's Who of prominent musicians. churchmen and journalists hoped "that this amazing action reflects the opinion of some irresponsible official...
...Among the founders: Drs. Lawson Gentry Lowrey, George Salvadore Stevenson and David Mordecai Levy of Manhattan; Dr. William Healy of Boston; Dr. Karl Augustus Menninger of Topeka, Kans...