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...when a war with Japan breaks. The odds are in favor of the U. S., the authors conclude, "provided that there are not too many Americans to ask 'Why?' and remain dissatisfied with the answer they receive." FIFTY-FIVE MEN-Fred Rodell-Tele-graph Press ($2.50). A sharply realistic account, based on James Madison's notes, of the framing of the U. S. Constitution, demonstrating that the framers had hard-headed motives never portrayed in grade-school history texts; and that the Federalist papers were slick propaganda. THE METROPOLITAN OPERA, 1883-1935 -Irving Kolodin-Oxford...
Chief Presidential point was an imaginary graph on which, until 1953, the line of Federal revenues was falling further and further below the line of Federal expenditures, with a widening deficit between them. Then, said Franklin Roosevelt, he decided to do something courageous, to turn the line of Federal expenditures upward in hope that Federal revenues would also rise. They did and the Budget for fiscal 1937 was his crowning achievement, showing the line of revenues rising closer & closer to expenditures...
...second and deflect a spot of light, generated by a cathodes ray tube, along a horizontal line in proportion to their strength. The sport, moving back and forth as higher and higher pitched sounds with different intensities are admitted, is photographed on sensitized paper and leaves a line graph. This graph is a picture record of the noise, showing the relative loudness of each of its component parts...
...hero-worship of the man in the White House. Surveys agreed that public enthusiasm for Franklin Roosevelt was cooler today than in the confused autumn of 1934. Dr. George Gallup, professional surveyor of public taste (who calls himself the "American Institute of Public Opinion"), recently published a graph of the President's popularity showing that it reached a new low just after Congress adjourned. Last week Frazier Hunt, correspondent of Newspaper Enterprise Association, after a cross-country political reconnoissance, came to a similar conclusion. The opposition, though still a minority, had grown in numbers while its issues had ceased...
...whole device weighs, with batteries, about three pounds. It transmits a steady humming signal broken every thirty seconds. A rotating cylinder, run by clockwork, makes electrical contact with Tungsten needles which move as the weather changes. The contact thus made transmits additional signals, which, are recorded on a graph at the receiving point, and from this graph, is reduced the data...