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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cinema, the event would be more surprising but no more interesting to either business than Steichen's retirement was to his. During the past 15 years he has devoted a famous talent to the development of photography for the magazine market. His name was about the first to mean anything under a fashion photograph. Since 1923 his portraits of stage, screen, society, sporting people have made the most striking pages in Vogue and Vanity Fair...
...major scientific development, which will mean the saving of thousands of dollars worth of electric power annually through increased efficiency of the vacuum tube, or "electric valve," in controlling electricity, was announced last Wednesday by the Cruft Laboratory of Communication Engineering...
This does not mean that Cambridge life is monastic. There are many dances throughout the year. But most of them are small, available only to a specified few. Only once a year is there a party in the true "college" sense--the Freshman Jubilee, late in May. It is the great Freshman Class dance. Since Freshman classes now number about 1,000 each year, the Jubilee is always a huge, sprawling affair with two orchestras, usually given in a huge, sprawling building, the Union, near the Yard. (Bear in mind that Harvard has a Yard, not a campus. All within...
...Secretary John Carson) whose duty it is to protect the public. So far he has had about 200 complaints to present to the Commission. Most publicized came from the Association of American Railroads which last week asked that the new price schedules be delayed for further study because they mean a $20,000,000 added annual burden to the greatly depressed U. S. railroads. B. C. C. refused. In case coal prices begin to get out of hand in the other direction, B. C. C. has power to establish maximum price levels...
...This does not mean that the securities of any manufacturer of military planes is a good buy, for military plane construction necessitates huge development expenses which may go for nothing if a competitor gets the contract...