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...geography "seasonal lag...
...Duchess, Helena, daughter of Cincinnati Railroad Tycoon Eugene Zimmerman, started divorce proceedings in England in 1931. When she let them lag the impatient Duke went to Cuba, got a quick divorce, married a onetime British actress named Kathleen Dawes...
About six weeks is the time lag necessary for Joseph Stalin to realize that one of his major policies has provoked hostile world public opinion and to hush it up accordingly. Last week the Soviet Press had been hushed since March 19 on the subject of Stalin's vengeance, exacted from citizens of Leningrad for the assassination there of the Dictator's "Dear Friend" Sergei Kirov (TIME. Dec. 10). Correspondents, unable to pry a single fact from the State since it announced that 1,074 Leningraders had been arrested, did get past the Soviet censor last week these...
...lapse of time between a scientific discovery and its effect on everyday life is an old story which will never become wholly obsolete. To shorten that time-lag is the chief objective of an organization announced last week by a handful of high-minded Washington scientists, journalists and laymen. A Delaware-chartered corporation called Research Associates Inc., the group includes Frederick Gardner Cottrell of the U. S. Bureau of Chemistry & Soils; Chester G. Gilbert of Manhattan's Research Corp.; Physicist Frederick Sumner Brackett of the U. S. Department of Agriculture; President William McClellan of Potomac Electric Power Co.; Senior...
Most crucial and significant of Soviet plan "unfulfillments" is the continued lag in haulage by Russia's worn-out railways. For reasons best known to himself, Joseph Stalin, while spending billions for hydro-electric power and such, still refuses to buy the thousands of new locomotives, tens of thousands of cars and millions of rails which Russia desperately needs. Instead, the Dictator's policy is to menace Russian railway men with firing squads, goad them to achievements of despair in making antique rolling stock roll on. Goader-in-Chief is the Dictator's dear friend Lazar Kaganovich...