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...merged the Labor Department's Bureau of Immigration and Bureau of Naturalization, put 275 employes out of work. The Interior Department took over all military parks, cemeteries and monuments, including the Statue of Liberty which had been in the Army's possession since 1886. Abolished was that butt of many jests, the National Screw Thread Commission created in 1918 to standardize nuts & bolts. Establishment of a unified Treasury agency for all government purchases was postponed until...
Externally Dr. Zworykin's iconoscope resembles a big electric light bulb with a long neck. The bulb part is 8 in. in diameter, the whole 16 in. long. Inside are, in order from bulb to butt, 1) an ordinary motion picture camera lens which focuses on 2) a 5x4 in. sheet of thin mica. The mica is coated with microscopic particles of a secret light-sensitive material (3,000,000 particles. Dr. Zworykin computes). In the bulb's neck is 3) a small, efficient, oscillating cathode tube which sends a slim beam of electrons weaving over the light...
...runty little man with a pistol-butt scar on his hollow cheek pattered into an office in the Department of Agriculture last week. He undid a paper package, produced a pair of shears and two pots of paste. With these arranged neatly on his desk, Theodore Gilmore Bilbo, demagog extraordinary and twice (1916-20, 1928-32) Governor of Mississippi, inducted himself into a job announced officially as "having charge of assembling current information records for the Adjustment Administration from news, magazine and other published sources." Paper-clipper Bilbo's reported salary...
...Long the butt of criticism from students and professors, the degree of cum laude in General Studies is on the point of being abolished or radically altered. Committees from the faculty and the Student Council, having considered the question, are postponing action on it until next year, when presumably an entirely new and more wholesome attitude will inscrutably have come to pass...
...McLean got one more chance to break the tie. When there were only seven minutes left to play, he sent in a corner kick, low and wide, to his centre, Werner ("Scotty") Nilsen. Nilsen received the pass on his broad Norwegian skull, gave it a resounding butt. The ball sailed past Chesney's long arm for the goal that ended the game, 2 to 1, gave the Westerners...