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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Click. Union Pacific's net operating income for April totaled $797,169, which was a quarter-million dollars more than April 1932, and $131,577 more than March this year...
...matter between the stars and a measure of the number of such particles. From these factors Dr. Struve calculates there is not more than one particle of star dust in each 15 cu. in. of interstellar space. If that is so, then all the star dust along the 25-million-million-mile line between Earth and Proxima Centauri, nearest star except the Sun, could be packed in a half-inch cube...
...could show no profit. Mr. Behn, who had watched I. T. & T.'s profits climb in six years from $1,930,000 to $17,732,000, now saw them tumble to less than half that sum, and finally sink out of sight into the bog of a three-million-dollar deficit. Gone were the days when an excited public was eager to pay $149 for I. T. & T. stock earning $3 a share. The stock earned nothing, sold...
Benito Mussolini sent a new seaplane to Manhattan for his messenger to fly home. Meanwhile Pinedo-worshipping Italians raised a half-million lire (about $26,000) to buy a new plane. The money, unused, was lodged in a bank...
...politeness. Last week the directors of Cotton-Textile Institute, Inc. plumped for a 40-hr, work week and an 80-hr. weekly limitation on mill operations. But George A. Sloan, the Institute's able young head, was able to muster only ten of the industry's 30 million spindles for the Institute's plan.* He announced that when he had mustered 20 million spindles he would ask Mr. Roosevelt to use the New Deal as a club to bring the rest into line...