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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Satellites X and XI with Mt. Wilson's 100-inch telescope.- "This discovery will rank as one of the great advances in astronomy of 1938," stated Director James Stohley of Philadelphia's Fels Planetarium. "There will be no hope of observing [the new satellites] except with the greatest telescopes...
Since an Egyptian bronze cat was installed at the St. Louis City Art Museum last month, attendance has increased rapidly. Last week the museum announced that the August total of visitors, 51,323, was the greatest since May 1914. The announcement was edged with rue however, because what the cat really dragged in for the St. Louis museum was trouble. Fortnight ago St. Louisans of such varied stripes as the Women's Chamber of Commerce and the American Artists' Congress were swelling with indignation at the purchase of a $14,400 piece of ancient sculpture while St. Louis...
...superior and inferior groups and then determined where their parents, nine out of ten of whom originally lived outside the State, were born. His findings: parents from the northern States of the U. S. produced more bright children than dull ones; the southern States more dull children than bright; greatest preponderance of bright children was in the far West; biggest proportion of stupid ones in the South Central States (Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama. Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas). Dr. Blair, whose doctor's thesis reporting his investigation was sponsored by Columbia University's Teachers College, offered no explanation...
Filed in Pittsburgh last week was an inventory of the estate of Andrew Mellon. In 1931 "the greatest Secretary of the Treasury since Hamilton" had an admitted $205,000,000. But he gave $68,000,000 to his children as a 1931 Christmas gift, $35,000,000 to charity, his $50,000,000 art collection to the U. S., vast other sums to favorite Mellon projects like the University of Pittsburgh. At his death only $37,000,000 remained, all of which (except for $180,000 to domestic servants) he willed to his charity outlet, the A. W. Mellon Educational...
...just before the 137 Class I railroads of the U. S. had rolled up a $181,000,000 net deficit for the first half of 1938, they moved to slash their greatest single operating cost. Notification was sent to railway unions that the roads would cut wages 15% effective July 1. Under the Railway Labor Act of 1926, preliminary horse trading thereupon began. Unions and management sat down together in Chicago, soon came to loggerheads. This automatically passed their dispute to the three-man National Mediation Board...