Word: glasse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Riggers' Figures. First step in solving any problem is to find out what the problem is. Last autumn, Franklin Roosevelt appointed President John D. Biggers of Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co. to make the first census of U. S. unemployment. Mr. Biggers went to work at $1 a year, with a $5,000,000 appropriation and the aid of the Post Office Department. Last November, 81,000,000 unemployment blanks were distributed by letter-carriers to 32,000,000 U. S. homes. As the returns came in, a separate door-to-door census checked them in 1,864 areas...
...transfusion during the night and none other than El Caudillo Franco took time off from the greatest battle of his life to telephone about his condition. But gangrene had set in. Not realizing the seriousness of his wounds, worrying about his typewriter and still hoping for a glass of beer on the morrow, Eddie Neil died...
Birthday. Carter Glass, senior Democratic Senator from Virginia; his 80th; in Washington, day after Congress reconvened. Said he of the President's speech (see p 11): "It was a very agreeable and engaging sort of a message, from his viewpoint...
...enough to serve tomato plants hundreds of feet tall. The trouble with previous pressure experiments, it appeared, was that they were made on dead or dying roots. At Princeton, Dr. White has an apparatus which keeps detached roots alive indefinitely by supplying them with nutrient fluid. When he attached glass tubes carrying columns of mercury to his tomato roots, the mercury went up until it indicated a pressure of more than eight atmospheres (125 Ib. per sq. in.), at which point the powerful roots broke his apparatus...
...elections, Sit on your arse for fifty years and hang your hat on a pension. It's no go my honey love, it's no go my poppet; Work your hands from day to day, the winds will blow the profit. The glass is falling hour by hour, the glass will fall for ever, But if you break the bloody glass you won't hold up the weather...