Word: levels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator Byrd squeezed through his amendment, 40-to-39. When the Administration moved for reconsideration, he won again, 40-to-39. The Byrd Amendment 1) holds down the costs of construction to somewhere near the level that $50-a-month families can pay for, and 2) practically cuts out slum clearance for some sections which need it most, for high metropolitan construction costs exceed $1,000 per room...
...recognized it as pitchblende. Surveys and assays showed that the deposit was rich and copious. In 1933 a refining plant was completed at Port Hope on Lake Ontario, 3,500 miles away. The Great Bear Lake find broke the Belgian monopoly, reduced the price of radium to its present level of $25,000 per gram. Few months ago Canada celebrated production of its first ounce of radium...
...party. Alongside this crusty diehard, the New York Herald Tribune might easily be mistaken for the Communist Daily Worker. Sad was the day in plush British drawing rooms when the Morning Post began to limp. After the Depression it reduced its price from twopence to the vulgar level of the penny press in an attempt to restore circulation. This year it was down to 116,000 and everybody in Fleet Street knew it was for sale...
...readers may have felt that the English upper classes were getting a raw deal in modern English fiction. The works of Huxley, Evelyn Waugh, Ronald Firbank and lesser observers of the upperworld contain few characters above the rank of a knight or above the ?5,000-a-year income level who are untouched by insipidity, depravity, or both. This week the far less satiric Sylvia Thompson (The Hounds of Spring) contributed another long, episodic novel depicting some unsavory doings among the best people. Since Recapture the MOON, has a central character who is fundamentally decent, and since it ends happily...
...Chapman of Los Angeles went high into the Chilean Andes, managed to trap a dozen. He brought them down gradually, kept them at 11,000 ft. for two years, 9,000 ft. for a year. It took him nearly six years to reach sea level. During the 8,000 mi. voyage to California the animals were kept packed in ice. All their hair dropped off, occasionally one fainted, had to be revived with cold compresses. In Los Angeles, Naturalist Chapman put them into a large screened building divided into pens running partly underground. Now, though Naturalist Chapman is dead, there...