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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Maximum view of the clock in TIME'S Supreme Court photograph indicates the picture was taken at 2:52, as stated...
...Calvin Willever (TIME, Nov. 2) has long yearned to extend to every type of telegram. Effective June i, the ten-word night message and 50-word night letter were abolished, a new, 25-word minimum night message introduced which could be sent anywhere in the U. S. for a maximum...
...three objectives are: 1) minimum hourly wages; 2) maximum weekly hours of work; 3) prohibition of strikebreaking, labor espionage, child labor. To achieve these objectives the Act creates a five-man Labor Standards Board named by the President with Senate confirmation. Future Board members are to be paid $10,000 a year, serve five-year terms and will have power to fix and vary minimum wages and maximum hours of U. S. labor (except farm labor) subject only to top limits of 80? per hour and $1,200 per year per worker. To disobey the Act or rulings...
...enjoyed clear weather during totality is usually mingled with groans from others foiled by clouds. Last week no groans were heard after the eclipse which crossed a great reach of the Pacific, touching almost no land (TIME, June 14). It was unfortunate that this celestial performance, which had a maximum totality duration unequaled in more than 1,200 years, should confine its watchers to three small, makeshift observation areas, only two of which were on solid ground. But none of these areas had bad weather...
Calculated maximum totality at the noon point in mid-Pacific was 7 min. 4 sec. Astronomers James Stokley of Philadelphia's Franklin Institute and John Quincy Stewart of Princeton did not quite reach this point in the S. S. Steelmaker, a freighter belonging to a subsidiary of U. S. Steel Corp., but with sympathetic co-operation from the captain they did get close enough to expect a duration of 7 min. 2 sec. Actually they were in the shadow cone for 7 min. 6 sec.-longer than the mathematical maximum-because while the shadow fled eastward the ship...