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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...verified that all pilots had received orders not to fly lower than 500 feet. South Americans especially regretted that the Colombian tragedy occurred on the 155th anniversary of the birth of their great hero, Simon Bolivar...
...rosy celebration at Wrigley Field just before his managerial debut in a double-header with the Dodgers (which they split), onetime Hero Charlie Grimm was on his way back to his Missouri farm. Mindful of his two pennants (1932 and 1935) and the enviable record of never finishing lower than third in the six years he managed the Cubs, Charlie Grimm smiled ruefully. "That's baseball." said...
There are two bones in the lower leg: the small fibula and the large tibia. Dr. Brockway cuts the tibia halfway through at right angles, slits it down to the desirable length, cuts it again at right angles to make a Z-shaped break. The fibula is cut slantwise. Pins are inserted in each bone above and below the break and after the flesh heals around them, are connected by a turnbuckle which is screwed 1/20 to 1/25th of an inch each day until the leg is stretched. The patient feels no pain during the stretching. Three inches...
...compared with other manufactured products; 3) price rigidity in farm equipment during Depression; 4) swift rebound of farm-equipment prices after the Depression years to levels higher than 1929; 5) International Harvester's greater profits in 1937 ,than in 1929 though farm income in 1937 was 18% lower than 1929; 6) only slight decline in International Harvester's prices during Depression but sharp declines in production and employment as contrasted with competitive industries; 7) exchange of price lists among companies; 8) evidence of dealer coercion...
Dewey in charge of the department, assigned to work out a program of flexible freight rates for farm products. Because of the present state of U. S. railroading. no immediate demands for lower rates will be made. Dr. Dewey, sedate, brown-haired, 37, got his Ph.D. at University of Michigan, made special studies of transportation and public utilities, has lately been chief of the division of transportation for the Bureau of the Census and Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce...