Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Noncooperation in war is the course recommended to pacifists by the Handbook. As a matter of strategy when conscription begins, the pacifist is advised .to set his affairs in order, provide for his family, get his pastor to accompany him before a draft board where he will state his position...
If gaping peasants in northern France, Germany or Poland last week thought they saw six white storks with wings dyed pink and green, aluminum bands on their legs and magnets strapped to their heads, the peasants had not lost their minds. The storks were indeed so equipped. They were subjects...
Honorary Secretary C. I. Blackburne of Surrey's Haslemere Educational Museum, who managed the British end of the experiment, had no idea last week how soon, if at all, the storks would get back to Poland. "If they find a nice farm," he said, "with a frog pond they...
Last week a tall, tanned geophysicist and petroleum engineer named Herbert Clark Hoover Jr. addressed the Institute of Radio Engineers in San Francisco. He told them how seismographic or "artificial earthquake" methods of prospecting for oil had improved in recent years. Technique at present is to bore a hole 500...
But if broadcasting business generally was comfortably in the black for 1938, a peep at who made how much revealed some disquieting statistics. Of the 660 stations in business, 419 made money, one broke even, and 240 were in the red. Of the luckless 240, 175 were "teakettle" stations doing...