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Basing his conclusion on the assumptions that human behavior is a natural phenomenon and is an orderly process, Zipf listed three impediments to world domination. The first is the movement of persons, goods, information, and services which is subject to the harmonic law, governing the rank and size of cities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Zipf Says World Dictator Unlikely | 12/15/1949 | See Source »

Whirling Discs. But Kant's hypothesis was not entirely discarded by astronomers. Recently, armed with a vast amount of detailed knowledge that Kant did not possess, modern astronomers have busied themselves reconsidering his theory and plugging holes in it. Last week, in a Chicago lecture, Astronomer Gerard P. Kuiper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: In the Beginning | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

Not only was Pittsburgh becoming the most unlivable city in the U.S.; Pittsburgh's domination of the steel world was literally at stake. Markets for steel had moved westward. The Supreme Court's decision outlawing the basing-point system (by which Pittsburgh steel plants had absorbed freight costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: Mr. Mellon's Patch | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

Brenton Welling Jr's article "St. Benedict's Explains Its Doctrine," in the September 27 issue of the CRIMSON covered the facts of the controversy very well, but in his one sentence summary of the official Catholic position he made an error of omission. Basing his statement on the latest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 9/30/1949 | See Source »

Businessmen were pleased-and surprised-that Joe O'Mahoney, an old trustbuster and friend of the Federal Trade Commission, wanted to permit freight absorption, a mainstay of the basing point system. But O'Mahoney said that the bill would only put into law what FTC has been saying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRICES: Clearing the Air | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

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