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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baptist bodies-may hold mortgages on its constituent churches so that they may not pass out of its control. Methodist churches are held by national bodies; Presbyterian churches by local trustees, reverting to local presbyteries if they are dissolved. Church laws apart, State laws of incorporation may limit a church to the activities for which it was specifically incorporated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: In a Tent | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...Rhine has selected material in order to prove his own belief; he inferentially admits that he stops scoring when a subject's percentage of correct guesses falls below a certain limit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Battle on Rhine | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...Franklin Roosevelt called another conference with railroad bigwigs to discuss the desperate railroad plight (see p. 64), the roads had their first good news in many a day. The House Interstate Commerce Committee killed a Senate bill to limit the length of freight trains to 70 cars-a law for which railroad labor lobbied long and earnestly but which would have cost the roads an estimated $125,000,000 to put into effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Government's Week: Apr. 11, 1938 | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...practices promulgated by the central management group"; 2) to "permit regulation of the Western Electric Co. by the FCC as a public utility"; 3) to "fix temporary rates whenever it appears that the return on net book cost is excessive"; 4) "to regulate Bell System financing"; 5) "to limit the scope of Bell System activities to the communications field" (Bell System at various times has been involved in radio, cinema, artificial larynges, photoelectric eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Faults Found | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...rubbermen created the International Rubber Regulation Committee- a cartel that represents 98% of the world's rubber producers. The I. R. R. C.'s aims are two:1) to establish and maintain a base limit to rubber planting, 2) to fix quarterly quotas on the amount of this rubber that is marketable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Optimistic Rubber | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

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