Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Light on Farms Sirs: In TIME, Aug. 14 is a letter from Mr. R. Wallace Brewster of Uniontown, Pa. in which the writer says, "In our country, where many of electricity's greatest uses have been invented . . . . only one-fifth of the farms are electrified. Compared with the so-called 'backward' European nations in which the use of electricity is nearly universal, it stands as a national disgrace." The writer is evidently misinformed. America leads in farm electrification as it does in all fields of electrification. . . . In percentage of farm electrification it must be compared with areas...
...replace Professor Vavilov, delegates elected Professor F. E. Crew of the University of Edinburgh, who said: "The atmosphere of the Congress has been turned to one of complete sadness. Nothing, however, can put out the light of science...
...Ware), who is good enough to sing with Walter Damrosch (Walter Damrosch). And in the meantime grownup Bing Crosby has had a chance to sing as well as they have ever been sung such Gus Edwards classics as School Days, Sunbonnet Sue, In My Merry Oldsmobile and By the Light of the Silvery Moon, any of which sounds fresh enough to step into the 1939 hit parade...
...waiting room. A middle-aged staff surgeon, wiped out in the crash of a big firm of drugmakers, commits suicide. In the operating room Surgeon Cavanaugh performs a "radical breast removal" in a state of jitters. (Six of his last nine cases had died.) The crisis comes when the lights go out. As they come on again he is suddenly his old self again. "For a minute," he quips, "I thought we'd forgotten to pay our light bill...
COLD STEAL-Alice Tilton-Norton ($2). Leonidas Witherall's new house near Boston is perfect except for a corpse in the garage. Not so mysterious but light-hearted and amusing...