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Since the War the law of nature which has ruled U. S. shipping has been the Survival of the Fewest. One after another the many shipping lines which the Shipping Board created in the 1920's have merged or formed alliances; notably Roosevelt Steamship Co. with International Mercantile Marine, both with the Dollar-Dawson Pacific coast interests to control U. S. Lines. Last week was announced the passing of the independent existence of another famed line, Munson, whose ships flying a blue flag bearing a white M have carried many a passenger and many a cargo between...
Their waterfowl data are based on 1,315 ducks killed or wounded by 106 hunters. Most losses came in pass shooting (from dry land near water), at which crack shots lost one-fourth of their hits, average shooters more than one-half. Fewest were lost in shooting over decoys: only 10.7% of 384 ducks. Most of the hunters shot in marshes, ordinary ones losing 41.5%, cracks 16%, for an average of 29.3% of all birds...
...week. It was not a pretty sight for soft-hearted political theorists. But that large sector of U. S. citizens which exalts the House over the Senate, which praises its "businesslike" method of legislative procedure, glowed with fresh admiration as it observed a tight little political autocracy make the fewest necessary concessions to muster a party majority behind its economic will and then, under a special rule, impel the measure through to passage...
...were gratified to discover that, invariably, as the number and intensity of sunspots increased, radio reception grew worse, until, at the peak of the period of sun spot activity, called the Sunspot Maximum, the radio signals reached their weakest point. Likewise, when the spots on the sun were fewest and weakest, the radio reception was best. For the measurement of radio reception we have made use of a superhetrodyne receiver with multiple stage amplification together with a self-recording galvanometer. A local oscillator with controlled output makes possible the exact calibration of the entire receiving circuit prior to each night...
...went to many private dinners in all parts of the country, and with only one exception-in Chicago-I never saw a prohibition table. I went to cocktail parties attended by State officials, United States legislators, judges, college presidents, by-it seems ridiculous to enumerate them. With the fewest possible exceptions, they all drank as much as or more than they did before prohibition. All say that prohibition is a sad, degrading farce. The only hope they have for unfastening the .millstone around their necks is that the Volstead act will gradually fall into desuetude and that the nation will...