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According to Nobel Laureate Millikan "technological unemployment'' was a bugaboo easily driven to cover by census figures: in 1880 34% of the U. S. population was gainfully employed, while after 50 years of sweeping technological advance, 40% of the population was gainfully employed. Critics who accused Science of making war horrible were facing the wrong way: Science had made war so horrible that in the future nations would recoil from it as if from suicide...
...part, the rising cost of automobile materials; 2) independent front wheel suspension ("knees")-old to Europe-to make cars of General Motors, Chrysler and others "easier riding"; 3) streamlining in a big way-Walter Chrysler's bid to claim the distinction that he made the buggy a bugaboo. A few years ago a 22-year-old graduate of the University of Texas named Byron Cecil Foy began selling Fords in Dallas. Norval A. Hawkins, Ford's salesmanager, was staging a nation-wide sales contest and to everyone's surprise the young Texan won it. Soon...
...Yehudi Menuhin, 28 (all his parents will let him play); Heifetz, 26, Zimbalist, Harold Bauer and Gabrilowitsch, expert musicians whose box-office power has never been sensational, have in the neighborhood of 30. Nathan Milstein has 33; Nelson Eddy, 37; Rose Bampton, 40. Cancellations were last year's bugaboo. A local manager would engage an artist and then be unable to sell enough seats to meet the fee. So far this season there have been practically no cancellations...
...power meeting of minds of immense significance. Premier Edouard Daladier called a special meeting of the French Cabinet at Rambouillet to discuss the precise measures of disarmament France might be prepared to take in return for the security resulting from international arms control. Meanwhile restive Paris newspapers raised the bugaboo of Germany's threat last year to withdraw from and wreck the Disarmament Conference unless granted "equality of armaments" (TIME, Aug. 1, 1932). Chancellor Hitler-cartooned by Paris Aux Ecoutes as a hawk with swastika talons hovering over the Disarmament Conference dovecote from which peep Chairman Arthur Henderson, Premier...
...open warfare in 1927 when Socony and Royal Dutch were fighting for the Indian gasoline market. Sir Henri Deterding loudly shamed Socony's Charles Meyer for buying "bloody" Russian oil. Mr. Meyer quietly pointed out that Sir Henri did precisely the same thing until Sir Henri became a bugaboo to Russia and his contracts were not renewed. Sir Henri, who not only sells his oil in every country except Russia but also markets in all the 48 States, still dominates India. With his close British friend Anglo-Persian, he sells three-fourths of all Indian oil. In China...