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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cyclical groove, which is about twice as long as that of the general business cycle, the building industry last year recovered to about the 1931 level. Since the peak of the last boom was hit not in 1929 but in the middle 1920s this recovery was spectacular only in comparison with its incredible Depression prostration. F. W. Dodge Corp.'s figure for all types of construction in 1936 in the 37 States east of the Rocky Mountains was $2,675,000,000 as against $1,844,000,000 the year before, $1,255,000,000 in 1933. Residential building...
...last week, with reports in for 1936 from nearly all the rest of the steel industry, Bethlehem's figures did not by comparison look so startling. Ernest Tener Weir's National Steel Corp. announced the highest earnings in the company's history-$13,171,000 before undistributed profits tax of $629,000 as against $11,136,000 the year before. Tom Mercer Girdler's Republic Steel, busy last week with a deal to acquire Gulf States Steel Co., earned more than twice as much in 1936 as in. 1935-$9,586,000 compared...
...value for the brightness of the sun in comparison with the other stars has been detirmined at the Oak Ridge Station by Dr. Calder, who attains a relatively high precision by the use of the electrical methods of measuring light. He finds, for instance, that the sun in 26.54 magnitudes brighter than the star Capella--that is, over thirty billion times as bright. "His measures for both the Sun and the Moon are appreciably different from the conventionally accepted values, for he finds the sun fainter and the moon brighter...
Student epicureans often have had thoughts, many of them unspeakable, about the House dinning halls. And even the most unimaginative have had dreams of a highly colorful if distressing nature. But none of these mental gymnastics, however fancy-free, bear comparison with the actual occurrence...
...Theatre and in which five members of the Abbey Theatre make their first U. S. cinema appearance together-is considerably less than that. Nonetheless, changed, abbreviated and tautened to suit the tastes of the U. S. cinema audience, it remains a dark and ferociously exciting melodrama, well worthy of comparison with Director Ford's 1935 contribution to the same subject, The Informer. Theme of the 0'Casey version of the play is the tragic muddleheadedness of the revolutionists, the Irish romanticism that made their rebellion fizzle off in ranting, saloon fights and ill-timed heroics...