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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...handle an invasion of jobless veterans. From San Francisco, Sacramento, Cincinnati, New Orleans, Evansville, Ind. came reports that independent contingents had set out for the capital. A detachment of 30 passed through Chicago from Utah. General Glassford had heard that from 70,000 to a million veterans would be in Washington by June 6. Together with Daniel Willard Jr., son of B. & O.'s kindly president, General Glassford called on Secretary of War Hurley to decide how the city and railroad were to be protected, how the marchers could be sheltered out of the dwindling D. C. community chest...
Ruthlessly resolved to force coffee prices up, Brazil's National Coffee Council continues to burn coffee (TIME, July 6). It announced last week that 6,565,641 sacks of coffee have been burned. It promised to burn by Jan. 1, 1933 a total of 18 million sacks each containing 132 Ib. of coffee. At approximately $6.50 per sack, $117,000,000 worth of coffee will have been turned to smoke...
...horse originated in North America. It had four toes on its fore feet, three toes on its hind feet. Moderns speak of it as Eohippus. It stood about 16 in. high, lived some 25 million years ago. In 24,900,000 years Eohippus grew up to the size of the modern horse, went wandering across America into Asia, across Asia, down into Africa. There the Libyans tamed him. From this horse is descended the race of pure-blooded Arab horses, famed for fleetness, which Arabian breeders still guard jealously. Some of his cousins went to France, were also tamed. These...
Cause for speculation and calculation arose from the celestially minute sizes of the Delporte and Reinmuth Objects (about three miles diameter) and from their unexpected locations. The Delporte Object was only ten million miles from Earth. The Sun is 92,897,400 mi. away. Venus (nearest planet) is 25 million miles at its nearest. The big, 20-mi.-in-diameter planetoid Eros approaches to 13,800,000 mi. Nothing planetary it seemed could come closer to Earth...
...sideline to writing some 80 books Author Bennett from 1896 to shortly before his death in 1931 kept a personal journal aggregating over a million words. The present volume-first of three- covers the years 1896-1910, covers its author's maturing observations on life, literature and Arnold Bennett. Carefully, yet candidly set down, these variegated soliloquies of a man trying, with unheardof application, to satisfy himself, are rarities of the first water in English literature...