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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lowest on record was the general U. S. tuberculosis death rate in 1932. Fifty-nine cities which averaged 174.4 deaths per 100,000 in 1910, 63.2 in 1931, last year averaged only 56.3. To help keep the rate headed downward, the 29-year-old National Tuberculosis Association will begin its 26th annual sale of Christmas seals day after Thanksgiving...
...complete isolation of the arm from the rest of the body. In the forward stroke, the shoulder, instead of following the arm, remained almost stationary. This caused the body to lie flat in the water, and the consequent lack of rolling was instrumental in accelerating their speed. The downward pull of the arm through the water was shortened, and the recovery made faster. This resulted in both arms being in the water at the same down; with two sources of power instead of one, speed increased immensely...
...Bradstreet reported a sharp gain in retail buying. Housewives, who had lofted department store sales in August 16% above the 1932 level, were flocking back to the counters; the downward sweep of the long-delayed normal summer slump seemed to be flattening out. Best buying was in the Midwest and on the Pacific Coast. Said D. & B.: ''No small part of the maintenance during the last few weeks of the headway made during the spring and summer months is attributable directly to the relentless enterprise of the NRA. . . . There has been no abatement in the rise of employment...
Everyone knows that the cricket produces its chirps by rubbing one fore wing across the other. With a microscope and sound camera Entomologist Frank Eugene Lutz of the American Museum of Natural History lately discovered that a cricket, outheifetzing Heifetz, makes a full-tone slur downward from the fifth "D" above middle "C" in one-fiftieth of a second. It makes four of these notes, separated by infinitesimal pauses, at each stroke of its bow. The cricket's stridor is a love song, produced only by the adult male. When the bemused female approaches he tones down his serenade...
...Houses or the Union will find food prices in Harvard Square restaurants are essentially the same as last year. Board in the Freshman dining hall will be $8 per week instead of last year's $9, and $8.50 in stead of $9 in the Houses. This downward change was announced before the National Recovery Act went into effect...