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...more before Congress sat, distribute them in advance to the Press in time for mailing to the Pacific coast. Receipt of the Message in confidence automatically estopped all news speculation as to its contents. But because President Hoover was slow finishing his, the public prints last week rioted in guesswork. Asked whether it would be long or short, Private Secretary Joslin gravely declared: "All I can say at this time is that the message will not be a long one-and also that it will not be a short one." For weeks President Hoover has been carrying around a little...
Northeastern Passage. There was small need for public guesswork when a red Bellanca seaplane popped up in Greenland one day last week. Although everyone was astonished that a plane could fly there from Detroit unnoticed, the news that Parker ("Shorty") Cramer was the pilot was a sure clue to the flight's objective. Since immediately after the War. Pilot Cramer, onetime flying partner of Sir George Hubert Wilkins, had been arguing for a subarctic air route to Europe via Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Denmark. Twice he attempted a trailblazer, twice failed: once with Pilot Bert Hassell...
That which bankers like least is guesswork. Yet every Tuesday and Friday all member banks of the Federal Reserve system have to make a hurried guess around 3 p.m. The guess is not what their condition is at the moment, for that is always ascertainable, but what it will be later in the day when they make their semiweekly reports to the Federal Reserve. Late transactions can turn proper reserves into surpluses or deficiencies. A surplus signifies a multiplied loss of profit owing to the fact that a dollar in reserve means many dollars in banking power; a deficit means...
...Census Bureau last week put a partial end to months of political guesswork when it announced its first official count of U. S. unemployment: 2.508,151. This figure, as of April 1, included only those out of work, able to work, looking for work. It did not include those with jobs who had been laid off without...
...eliminate guesswork and tradition from golf instruction," the Professional Golfers' Association hired a movie camera geared to take 3,200 pictures per second, sent it to Atlanta last week to photograph Robert Tyre ("Robot") Jones Jr., world's best golfer, making his shots. George Sargent, onetime P. G. A. president, superintended the photographing. He said that pictures would also be taken of England's Joyce Wethered, foremost female stylist, and 'of graceful old Harry Vardon. The pictures will be distributed to P. G. A. members to teach them how to teach...