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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eclipse Safely?Eclipse partial over all United States on afternoon, Aug. 31; total in New England; get eclipse data and mounted dark film for observing eclipse by sending a dime and a self-addressed stamped envelope to photographic department, Yerkes Observatory, Williamsbury...
...much popular interest frightened as well as delighted astronomers. McGill University begged the Montreal City and the Quebec Provincial Governments to declare Aug. 31 an official holiday from at least the middle of the afternoon. This was to reduce traffic-jams and to help prevent the turning on of street, motor and house lights during the few seconds Montreal will be in the path of the complete eclipse...
...Time. The U. S. Naval Observatory will broadcast special radio signals from Arlington and Annapolis. WGY, Schenectady and WCSH, Portland, Me. will rebroadcast. Canadian National Railways Station CNRO, Ottawa will also broadcast. The day will probably be poor for radio reception because some sunspots are due to blow open Aug. 28 and 29. Sunspots always disturb radio communications...
...takes time. Convicts have lots of time. Last week in Clinton Prison at Dannemora, N. Y., and in the McAlester. Okla. Penitentiary, convicts had turned artist. At grey, feudal Clinton where in 1929 the inmates rioted (TIME, Aug. 5, 1929), Convict Peter J. Curtis, onetime Brooklyn sign painter, was holding art classes. From 9 to 10 a.m. he taught his colleagues lettering; from 10 to 11, figure composition; from 11 to 11:30, color mixing and color schemes; from 2 to 3 p.m., perspective, "style and individuality"; from 3 to 3:30, color harmony. In his free time he painted...
...impound the waters of deflation. Spurred on by Governor Eugene Meyer of the Federal Reserve Board, big New York banks combined again last week under the leadership of President Mortimer Norton Buckner of the Clearing House Association to launch the long-debated $50,000,000 Commodities Finance Corp. (TIME, Aug. 15). Though dubbed "the commodity pool" in its rumor stage, C. F. C. will purchase no commodities. It will conduct a financing business along strict banking lines. Banker Buckner defined its scope as "facilitating the financing of the purchase, carrying, and orderly marketing ... of agricultural and other commodities." Actual operations...