Word: discussable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent eclipse of Venus by the moon for fear that laymen would discover that the universe is not running according to man-made schedule; that Alexander ("Town Crier") Woollcott is an ardent Fortean who gives away dozens of Fort's books to friends; that Booth Tarkington would discuss Fortism in the next issue. No better and no worse than the rest of the magazine were the words of Charles Fort himself, piously printed from his jumbled notes just as they were found in the shoe boxes where he kept them...
...With this year's crops well on their way to use, Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace last week collected 119 representatives of State farmer associations in Washington to discuss and approve the proposed national AAA program for 1938. Major changes are two: 1) benefit payments to be lumped, instead of coming in two categories for "soil-building practices'' and diverting soil-depleting crops; 2) reduction in the base acreages lor the major soil-depleting crops. Cotton, for example, would be reduced from 34 million to 29-31 million acres. Other base acreages suggested: potatoes...
...Then the President departed, a day earlier than he had planned, for Washington where he called Secretary Hull and Chairman Joseph P. Kennedy of the U. S. Maritime Commission into conference to discuss the problems of routing U. S. shipping in Chinese ports...
...full meeting of the British Cabinet, unusual for the summer, will be held this week to discuss the Mediterranean and Chinese crises...
...than 200 people united by a common passion-the construction and operation of model railroads with such elaborate attention to detail and conformity to scale that they feel entitled to resent the word "toys." This was the third annual convention of the National Model Railroad Association, and its members discussed such things as the best ways of ballasting track and handling steam boilers with as much warmth as the operating vice president of the Southern would discuss parallel maintenance problems with the superintendent of his Atlanta division...