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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eliminated from the bill was the House's plan to have the Tariff Commission weigh complex and intangible differences in "competitive conditions" instead of production costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: PL R. 2667 Compromise | 6/2/1930 | See Source »

...announcement ... is the crowning example of the chronic inferiority complex from which the book business in this country seems always to have suffered. I regard the decision of these publishers ... as shortsighted, unwise, and likely, if it has any effect whatsoever, to have a very disturbing effect indeed on the industry as a whole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Book War | 6/2/1930 | See Source »

...with ironmasters in their own field, yet last week the Bank of England, for generations "The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street," prepared to take control of a large part of England's iron and steel industry. Bank Governor Montagu Collet Norman, famed for his keen maneuvers on the complex field of international exchange, prepared for the new role of Steel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Empire's Steel | 6/2/1930 | See Source »

Sympathize with Saint Ghandi if it so pleases you, and, by all the Gods, even the most uncompromising Englishman respects his piety and idealism, but do not deceive yourself that complex India would ever beatify a Hindu philosopher as California has her Krishnamurti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 26, 1930 | 5/26/1930 | See Source »

Though they were indoors, they beheld the strange gyrations of the sky. Though it was but 3 p. m. they saw the sun go down, Venus, the evening star, appear. It was the opening performance of the country's first planetarium. A planetarium is a complex instrument for reproducing on an elaborate scale the motions of the 5,400 stars visible to man, and the planets of the solar system. It is a simple matter to note the motion of the moon and sun because they are large, travel rapidly relative to man. But the stars are so deliberate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Star Chamber | 5/19/1930 | See Source »

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