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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shasta Dam will be one more world wonder for Californians to boast about-more than half again as vast a bulk of masonry as the Great Pyramid, only 167 ft. lower than Boulder Dam (world's highest: 727 ft.), only 700 ft. shorter at the crest than Grand Coulee (world's longest: 4.200 ft.). World's No. 2 Dam in these respects, it will be No. 1 for the height of its overflow: 480 ft., or thrice the fall of Niagara...
Last week, 36 student seamen, first batch of more than 2,400 expected to enroll within a year, were ferried out to tiny, shuttle-shaped Hoffman Island in lower New York Bay for the first session of the new Merchant Marine Training School. Superintendent was smiling Lieut. Commander George Evans McCabe of the U. S. Coast Guard, an energetic expert in seacraft who will rate a salute from every man in the school (". . . and not with a sneer on his face, either"). Teachers will be six commissioned officers and 30 petty officers from the Coast Guard cutter service. For training...
Following the Roosevelt lead and splitting the nation's consumer incomes into thirds, Dr. Kneeland found that the 13,000,000 families and individuals in the lower third received under $780 a year, were not a distinct or unusual social group but included all types of consumers in all sorts of communities. Fully 70% of them were not getting any form of relief, although their average income was$471 a year. The middle third of 13,000,000 averaged $1,076; the top third, just under $3,000-but this was a meaningless figure because of the tremendous range...
...building is faring was last week indicated by the National Industrial Conference Board in a nine-page survey with charts. Its big fact: In the first seven months of 1938 industrial production was lower than for any corresponding period since 1933 but construction exceeded the corresponding figure in every recent year except 1937. And in the second quarter of this year the building lag behind 1937 was cut from...
Carloadings fortnight ago rose to 620,511, some 20% under a year ago, yet a new high for 1938. But signs of increasing revenue-like hopes for lower wage costs (see above)-are only details in the sorry railroad picture; last week bonded indebtedness still cast its shadow. Prime example of a railroad staggering under top-heavy debts is 111-year-old Baltimore & Ohio, fifth largest U. S. railroad (in revenue). The line has some $685,000,000 in fixed indebtedness, on which it has had to pay over $31,000,000 in interest annually. B. & O. lost...