Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...maintain the ship's speed and altitude. By increasing the pitch of propeller blades bigger bites are possible, but wind-tunnel experiments have indicated that any propeller's effectiveness reaches a limit when the speed of its blade tips surpasses the speed of sound (at sea level, 780 m.p.h.; at 20,000 ft., 500 m.p.h.). When propeller tips reach the speed of sound, they find themselves in a sort of dead heat with the sound waves they are generating. These waves, unable to get away from a source traveling just as fast, jam up around the propeller tips...
This year's T. U. C. president, militant Secretary Herbert H. Elvin of the National Union of Clerks, accused the Prime Minister of having allowed "the prestige of the British Empire to sink to its lowest level in the last 100 years...
...surface changes on the earth. Dr. Brown rules them out. Older theories held that accumulations of ice and snow at the poles might slow up the earth's speed. But the least amount of frozen water necessary to slow up the earth would have changed the average sea level all over the world by about a foot. This has not happened. The weight of mountains and force of volcanoes are also inconsiderable. Even if the whole group of Himalayas could be razed and piled up at the pole, the earth's speed would not be altered...
Keynoter was the association's retiring president, Budget Director Arthur C. Meyers of St. Louis (Aa), who said: "The main factor that makes the problem of Relief, unemployment, taxation and debt so difficult is the lack of cooperation between the different levels of government." On behalf of the lowest governmental level, Budgeteer Meyers complained that city Relief bills are uncertain because WPA does not distinguish consistently between employables and unemployables. For Depression II he suggested a long-range program "by all levels of government, business, labor and industry." Main proposal: higher share to cities on State taxes on liquor...
Last week figures from abroad indicated a slight leveling off in business, but London's famed financial sheet,The Economist, remarked: "We cannot conclude that the downward trend in British business has been reversed. . . . In France, where for some months rising wholesale prices have paradoxically countered falling industrial production, a slight improvement has set in. . . . Only in Scandinavia is business maintained at a high level, but even there certain signs of a recession in investment activity have appeared. The recession has gathered way in the Low Countries; and the Far East must still be counted out of the commercial...