Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...murders in London (New York had over 400 in 1932) and in 13 cases the murderers saved the police trouble by committing suicide: but on the other hand there were 13,800 burglaries, 86% of which remained unsolved. Police morale was bad. Constables' pay was reduced from a basic rate of $17.50 per week to $13.75: sergeants were re- duced from $25 & $30 to $23; inspectors from $31.50 & $49 to $29.50 as part of last year's economy budget. Lord Trenchard discovered that the Police Federation, an organization of policemen covering all Britain, was ''deliberately fomenting...
...goods from mine to mill, from factory to store, jumped 43,000 to 535,000. considerably more than the usual seasonal gain.* Only major index still below the line was electric power production, but a heavy gain was predicted for this week. The gains were not all in the basic industries. Retailers described their trade as the best since Christmas. Exporters, jumping to the chance that a depreciated dollar provided, reported the best business in two years in automobiles, machinery, radios, tools. Sales of cotton goods were well in excess of production, something seldom true of that unhappy industry. Wholesale...
...adroitly arranges to have another of his authors fall in love with Mme Fournier. To Mosca's and her husband's surprise. Mme Fournier actually falls in love with the author, etc., etc. Little Ernest Truex can always make a defeated part seem humorous due to the basic fact that he is about half as large as the rest of the members of the cast. Nevertheless Best Sellers, seldom as farcical as its hard-working actors try to make you believe, is fraught with polite tedium...
...sinking fund to retire the national debt, which last year bit ?32,500,000 out of the Budget. Penny a Pint. As far as the British taxpayer was concerned, there was only one encouraging word in the Budget, that was Beer. The income tax remained at its old basic tax rate of five shillings in the pound-25%, the highest income tax in the world, though Chancellor Chamberlain offered a slight sop by restoring the old method of collecting in equal half-yearly installments instead of demanding three-quarters of the tax in January, one-quarter in July. The beer...
...material is neatly organized and consists of a logical, though not chronological, account of physics, beginning with the kinetic theory of gases and ending with spectroscopy and a discussion of the periodic table of the elements. Three weeks are spent in introducing the basic idea of the quantum theory, as it is evidenced in the photo-electric effect and the spectrum of hydrogen. Each experiment is described and demonstrated prior to the discussion of the theory which explains it. Agreement between theoretical and experimental results is carefully tabulated throughout. The mathematics is limited to algebra; integral signs are banned...