Word: jr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day it appeared that Miss Mercer also had previous entanglements. Pullman Porter Carson Clarence Rollins Jr. popped up and casually informed newsmen that he had married her in Stroudsburg, Pa. in 1931.* But he was indulgent about it, observing: "Imagine my surprise on learning that my wife was about to become a Princess...
...Seven-months-old Elbert Coplen Jr. demoralized his associates by learning to talk on the set, caused one expensive retake when he uttered his first word. "Polly," another when he cut four teeth amidscenes...
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 ft. deep, drop a dynamite charge to the bottom. When the charge is exploded, vibrations resembling earthquake waves ripple out in all directions. Some travel straight down, and part of them are reflected back up with different intensities from layers of rock, sandstone, limestone, shale. Geophones on the surface pick...
...natural for Herbert Jr., a graduate of Stanford and Harvard Business School and since then a radio engineer, to get into seismographic oil prospecting, not only because his father has prospected off & on all his life (and still does), but because the sound technique leans heavily on radio principles. Herbert Jr., at 35, is a prospector in a big way, employing 200 men in five laboratories. He lives with his wife and three children in a secluded whitewashed brick house behind Pasadena, rides and plays a little tennis, but has little time for social doings and no time for country...
Last December Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr., who eight years ago was an agriculturist but now talks economics with some assurance, hooked his pince-nez on his nose and looked a twelvemonth ahead. Prosperity, he told his economic experts in the Treasury, would be back in 1939. By prosperity he meant something much closer to 1937's $69 billion national income than to 1938's recession income of less than $65 billions. Last week, while Henry Morgenthau was waving out the old fiscal year, the Commerce Department issued its figures on national income for the first five months...