Word: following
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...follow Columbia's trail...
...scheme: to transplant strapped U. S. farm families wholesale to southern Alaska's Matanuska Valley, whose 76,000 tillable acres now support only 117 families. It was decided to send about 1,000 people (200 families) first, follow them with more if the plan worked. The transplantees had to be used to hard winters, so state relief workers in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan were detailed to call for volunteers. Out of 6,000 applicants they picked farm families who had long been on relief, in which father & mother were young, sturdy, courageous. Early last week an advance guard...
...speculators do not let the U. S. raise its ante peacefully by easy stages, the U. S. may stop raising-or may raise to the limit-$1.29 an oz., the "legal" silver price set years ago by Congress. In the confusion that would follow this latter move, stabilization of world exchange might be postponed indefinitely. Or confusion might be so great that England and other nations would have to join the U. S. in a stabilization conference...
...American Chemical Society in Manhattan, the American Association of Physical Anthropology in Philadelphia, the National Academy of Sciences and the American Physical Society in Washington, the American Association on Mental Deficiency in Chicago. Consequently a savant's paper had to be of rare interest to attract attention. Here follow summaries of some pertaining to Medicine and the business of living...
...Arts degrees will be in seventeenth century style, but the wording has been left practically unchanged. The degrees for law, medicine, and philosophy will follow models used in the lats eighteenth century. Still a different design will be drawn for honorary degrees and will be ready in time for the Tercentennial ceremonies...