Word: expressiveness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...express my thanks for the mental gymnastics provided by your current events test? It has served to "jack me up" on my perusal of TIME. Of late I had neglected the cover-to-cover method usually followed, and the test caught me on things I should have known. Incidentally, my latest issue has my fingerprints on every page...
...average American believes everything he sees in the movies," complacent Belgraders were informed last week by their favorite newsorgan Politika. Since the article was promisingly headlined American Film Lies About Yugoslavia, the Belgraders read on through a leisurely, contemptuous castigation of Fox Film's Orient Express...
...Moscow bureau, Boston's Christian Science Monitor asked recently: "Has Russia gone Democratic?", referring to Premier Molotov's recent announcement of "secret, direct and equal" suffrage. Excerpts from the tart answer of Monitor Muscovites last week: "If the Communists were content to express their aims honestly, and to describe conditions in Russia as they are, it would be much easier to sympathize with them. Unfortunately, they prefer to misrepresent conditions not only to their own people, but to the outside world as well, to lay claims to a democracy which still has no existence in Russia...
There he met Herbert Hoover Jr., went over to Western Air Express when that company made Junior Hoover its chief radio engineer. It was while working there in 1930, under Junior Hoover's supervision, that Geoffrey Kruesi invented the Homing Compass (TIME, Dec. 29, 1930). Lacking funds to develop it, Western Air Express soon dropped Inventor Kruesi from its payroll. In 1931 he was hired by the Army, has lived modestly in Dayton ever since...
Last week Railway Express Agency, "brother-in-law of the railroads," slashed its rates between the two biggest cities on the Atlantic seaboard. Railway Express will now carry packages up to 5 lb. between New York and Philadelphia for a flat 25? instead of a maximum of 40?; will carry 100 lb. for 75? instead of $1.45; 500 lb. for $3.64 instead of $7.25-an average reduction of 50%. Reason: competition from trucks...