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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ground-plan to revive U. S. industry by a nationwide housing drive backed by private capital. Said the President: "From the point of view of widespread and sustained economic recovery, housing constitutes the largest and most promising single field for private enterprise. Housing construction has not kept pace with either the needs or growth of our population. From 1930 to 1937, inclusive, the average annual number of new dwelling units constructed in the United States was 180,000 as contrasted with an annual average of 800,000 in the seven years prior to 1930. In addition, much of our existing...
...about 35 years of age, males of the Royal Family are among the most appreciative voluntary patrons of London slapstick vaudeville, but now that George VI has assumed the throne, many loyal subjects find it slightly improper to think that such crude amusement can be either to the King's or the Queen's taste. Fortnight ago millions of provincial radio listeners to the first vaudeville Command Performance before Their Majesties agreed that the B. B. C.'s female commentator had struck exactly the right note in saying of Queen Elizabeth: "She is smiling sweetly, as though...
These were said to be the deepest authentic cosmic ray recordings ever made. Mr. Wilson, believing that ordinary electrons or protons could not penetrate 1,600 feet of solid rock, came to the conclusion that the rays must be either neutrinos or X-particles, both relative unknowns. For although atomic physicists speak of neutrinos (small, uncharged particles with a mass less than that of an electron) as familiarly as a carpenter does of a tenpenny nail, they have never come to light experimentally. "X-particles," although they have turned up experimentally (TIME, Nov. 29), have yet to be explained...
...visits to Rhodesian and South African jamborees, Chief Boy Scout Robert Stephenson Smyth, Baron Baden-Powell, 80, declared: "It is either going to kill or cure me. I don't mind which it is, so long as I can carry through my work...
Recognition of a closed shop may have two results. First, all non-union employees of the University will be forced, for the sake of their job, either to join the union or to leave and seek another position. Such an abandonment of these who have worked here for many years, who relish its protection through the guarantee of steady work, with slight chance of dismissal for economic or political reasons, who benefit by its group insurance and pension plans, is unlike the attitude that should be assumed by a liberal employer...