Word: latters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tumbled mountains of Northern California, among which Mount Shasta's snowy crest is the noblest (14,161 ft.), rush three sturdy rivers-the Pit, the McCloud, the Sacramento-to unite under the latter's name in a deep valley just above Redding, Calif. Since 1866 engineers have dreamed of throwing up a dam below the rivers' confluence, to stabilize the water supply of the whole fertile Sacramento Valley. Besides irrigation and flood control, hydroelectric power would be a byproduct, perhaps making profitable the mining of iron ores now locked in the wild Siskiyou Mountains north of Shasta...
...Star, since the Henie wardrobe arouses the jealousy of her less fortunate classmates. It also permits Miss Henie to model a collection of cold-weather creations which female cinemaddicts are likely to find even more eye-worthy than the tricks Miss Henie executes while wearing them. Best of the latter is an Alice in Wonderland ballet...
...yellow-green chlorophyll B, whose atoms of carbon, hydrogen, and nitrogen are arranged in rings similar to that of the red pigment in human blood corpuscles. Main difference between the chemical composition of chlorophyll and the coloring matter of blood cells is that the former contains magnesium, the latter iron...
More than a month ago, Publisher Stern arranged to get new money not only for the Post but for his Record-$1,000,000 for the latter, principally from Philadelphia's Federal Reserve Bank, of which Dave Stern is a onetime advisory director, and nearly $2,000,000 for the former from "outside sources." In addition, on the Post, a $5,000-a-week budget cut was begun. Of its 142 editorial employes, twelve were fired-as were 23 of 180 Record editorial employes. The financial pages of both papers were dropped. And Dave Stern, whose papers...
...Douglas, worried about comfort stations (TIME, Aug. 29), at "the 1939 World's Fair," a slap on the wrist from the West. By the 1939 World's Fair did he mean the San Francisco Fair or the New York Fair? (TIME, in parentheses, assumes he meant the latter...