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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...theory needs amplification to be convincing, but the body of evidence he has built up is impressive. And he is not alone in his ideas. Many first-rate economists, as Sauerbeck, Poynting, Aftalion, Bresciani-Turroni, Hollander, Mitchell; astronomers and astrophysicists, such as Turner, Schuster, C. T. R. Wilson, Birkeland, Nodon, Stratton, Huggins, Bauer, Douglass, W. W. Campbell; weather sharps such as Bigelow, Clough, Henry, have arrived at very similar conclusions, or have corroborated various steps in the grand generalization. We are forced to believe that there is good evidence for the linking together of planetary phenomena and economic cycles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Venus, Panic-Monger | 1/21/1924 | See Source »

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