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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Repeal of the Arms Embargo is very unlikely to cause a war boom in this country and will affect American business much less than is generally realized according in Alvin H. Hansen, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy...
...subatomic particles produced at the University of California by Ernest Orlando Lawrence's giant new cyclotron. This 225-ton machine, whose operators shield themselves by water-tank barricades, can kill white mice and destroy cancer cells at popgun range. Installed in a front-line trench it would have less effect on an enemy soldier at 50 feet than one well-aimed rifle bullet...
...raucous crying in the wilderness. . . . Human behavior has continued to deteriorate." Hooton feels that his is a voice in a wilderness because: 1) men like to think of themselves not as imperfect and unstable animal organisms but as vessels of godlike aspiration and achievement; and 2) no prophet is less heeded by the man-in-the-street than he who foretells disaster some centuries or millennia hence, i.e., long after the man-in-the-street is dead...
...pressure to supply domestic customers anxious to pile up stocks at pre-war prices; needy belligerents and neutrals who formerly bought from England or Germany. Last week the Norfolk & Western Railway which taps the mines of West Virginia and Kentucky carried 20,845 cars of coal, just 48 cars less than its all time record in the boom week of March 27, 1937. Any further increases in production are limited by: 1) the fact that many mines have not now the man power or machine power to shift to a six-day week; 2) such coal carriers as Norfolk & Western...
...impossible to grant Mr. Greene his "implications." This war is only a prelude to the decades of Napoleonic struggles which would have to be waged before any such peace could be concluded. But to avert anything less than this, the United States must...