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But character building and job training will not provide for America's four million unemployed young people "the sense of pride in fruitful work." Consequently the majority of the contributors to "American Youth" see the necessity for some form of voluntary work camp programe--possibly an enlarged C.C.C. with "a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOKSHELF | 11/19/1940 | See Source »

In 1929 the U. S. aircraft backlog was $50,000,000 or less. Last October it was $392,000,000. Last week, for 28 airplane, engine and parts makers, it was over $2,500,000,000. In this figure were $627,000,000 for Curtiss-Wright, $395,000,000 for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Planemakers Grounded? | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

Heredity & Environment. There is no evidence that any racial group or social class has more native intelligence than any other. There are more variations in heredity among individuals of a group than among any social or racial groups. Children tend to be like their parents in hereditary capacity; if their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Eugenics for Democracy | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

Last week seekers of new capital were scared and scarce. Most interesting issues filed with SEC were two small registrations of common stock. One was for Timm Aircraft Corp., which has a new plane molded out of plastics (TIME, June 3), proposes to offer holders of its 625,005 shares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: New Financing Adjourned | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

Western U. S. quicksilver mines were sizable producers in the last century. But they exhausted their best ore, and of 90 or so mines in the U. S. today, most are marginal producers, their rate of production highly responsive to the cartel's price. Newest U. S. mine in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MINING: Quicksilver Renaissance | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

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