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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like the fever chart of a sick giant, the Federal Budget continued to make news last week about the public credit of the U. S. On April 18 the red line of the deficit broke through the billion-&-a-half-dollar mark for the first time in fiscal 1933. On that day Federal outgo ($3,102,172,570) since July 1, 1932 exceeded Federal income ($1,598,325,881) by $1,503,846,689.* The Public Debt stood at $21,452,266,588, an increase of $1,965,263,144 in the form of borrowings to meet current expenses since...
When the Leonid meteors coursed through the upper air last November, Astronomer Olivier had 14 scattered observers chart the meteor trails. Comparison of data showed the meteors traveling 90 to 142 m. p. h. The faster ones began to glow from atmospheric friction when 84 mi. from earth's surface. At 54 mi. they burned themselves out. Two of the meteors spattered luminescent trains behind them, which Astronomer Olivier's men saw floating 50 to 60 mi. aloft. Wind drove one train upward at an angle of 55 degrees and a speed of 142 m. p. h. Wind...
Skippy (General Mills). A pin. a health chart, membership in the Very Very Secret S. S. S. S. (Skippy Skinner's Secret Society). Skippy's identity is kept secret...
...Passed the $1,003,726,000 appropriation bill for independent offices, after increasing the Federal Trade Commission's funds to continue its "Power Trust" inquiry and listening to Nebraska's Norris lecture from a huge wall chart labeled "Spider Web of Wail Street...
...buncombe . . . high-salaried experts in solving the insoluble and achieving the impossible ... a truant officer to fetch [the pupil] and police him, a dietitian to save him from scurvy and pellagra, a surgeon to remove his adenoids and tonsils, a dentist to plug his teeth, and a psychologist to chart the movements, if any, of his IQ . . . multitudes of special classes for backward pupils . . . struggling with the uneducable ... ten or twelve years of intensive tuition (or, at all events, of pleasant recreation) for downright idiots...