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...building, prime hope for renewed industrial upswing, continued to tread water as lumber output, already off 15% from last year, sagged 9% more. Automobile production was down from the previous week to 89,770 units, compared with 84,780 for the same week last year. Makers were notably laggard about buying materials, and the New York Herald Tribune predicted a downtrend in the next few weeks. Electric power production fell but was still 4% above last year. Rug sales are a good prosperity gauge because rugs lie as close as any luxury product to the hard floor of necessities. Last...
Soviet science may be laggard in prestige and solidity, * but it is certainly not so in imagination. A report from Moscow's Laboratory for Aviation Medicine last week reminded observers of the conditioning courses for newborn and unborn babies described in Brave New World, Novelist Aldous Huxley's sarcastic peek into a lurid future. The possibility raised in Moscow by the experiments of Professor V. V. Streltsov was that of training young Reds to become stratosphere pilots who would thrive in the tenuous upper air. have no need of oxygen from tanks...
Admitting by implication Mr. Churchill's charge that the Government has been laggard in Rearmament, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin told the House with what he called "appalling frankness" that "democracies are always about two years behind dictatorships." In these circumstances, argued the Prime Minister, the democratic British Cabinet are doing the best they can and "every phase of the defense problem is being studied by the best brains of the country, including 29 Ministers of the Crown, 179 officers of the Fighting Services, 283 civil servants, eleven representatives of the Dominions and 30 persons outside the Government services...
Harvard's careful young Chemist-President James Bryant Conant was last week making his second annual report. He proposed to establish an oasis against a possible return of the Dark Ages by making Harvard's laggard, half-undergraduate School of Engineering into a first-rate graduate school...
...notorious that the U. S., most precocious child of the Industrial Revolution, is a laggard in Housing?the business of furnishing cheap and comfortable shelter. Less than half the homes in the U. S. measure up to minimum standards of decency. Surveying U. S. housing in five articles (Feb.-July), FORTUNE laid the blame upon: "The inefficiency and disorder of its management, the dependence upon speculative real-estate dealers which hampers it in its purchases of land, the costliness of its methods, the exorbitant rates of its financing, the obstructive tactics of its labor, the complication and stupidity...