Word: darwins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...created the New York State Housing Board, chairmanned by Brooklyn's Darwin Rush James. Under its control private corporations were set up to: i) Build model apartments renting for $11 per room per month ($12.50 in congested Manhattan); 2) borrow 663% of their cost on mortgage bonds; 3) pay 5% or less on their borrowings; 4) restrict dividends to 6%; 5) apply surplus to reduce rentals. Since 1927 eleven housing projects around New York City have been completed under the Board, representing 1,918 apartments costing $10,161.074. Four of them were co-operative undertakings by the Amalgamated Clothing...
Doom? Eugenists view with alarm the world's future population. From England wrote Major Leonard Darwin, 82, eugenist son of Evolutionist Charles Darwin: "My firm conviction is that if widespread eugenic reforms are not adopted during the next hundred years or so, our Western civilization is inevitably destined to such a slow and gradual decay as that which has been experienced in the past by every great ancient civilization...
Lizard-Eaters- Two months ago Capt. Hans Bertram, 27, and Mechanic Adolph Klaussmann took off from Koepang. Timor Island, for Darwin, Australia, 500 mi. south. In their Junkers seaplane Atlantis they had left Germany three months prior, on a tour to boost German trade. From Koepang they never reached Darwin. For weeks flyers and foot parties searched the bush of Australia's north coast. Last month some black natives found the abandoned plane, and Capt. Bertram's cigaret case and a handkerchief, on the beach near Drysdale Mission, 100 mi. northwest of Wyndham. Australian officials continued searching, dubiously...
...long and so tough is it that Charles William Anderson Scott, after setting a new record last year, declared: "I wouldn't make the attempt again for a million pounds!" But last week Lieut. Scott recovered his record (snatched by Charles A. Butler last November), swept into Port Darwin, Australia in 8 days, 20 hr., 49 min. out of Lympne, England. Again tired Pilot Scott announced that he was through with hopping &; skipping, said he would return "on a comfortable boat...
Died. Gamaliel Bradford, 68, biographer (Damaged Souls, Darwin, The Quick & The Dead); after lingering illness; in Wellesley Hills, Mass. Eighth in lineal descent from Governor William Bradford of Plymouth Colony, he termed himself a "psychographer." Critics called him "the U. S. Lytton Strachey," rated him less urbane and epigrammatic but more profound. An essayist and editorialist (for the Boston Herald), he said: "My biographical work is laborious and hard. . . . But plays and novels! It's easy and fun to write them. . . . That's what . . . I've done year after year without much encouragement." Biographer Bradford, though sickly...