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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week. If the Lexington's great fleet of planes could not find the lost flyers. Rear Admiral Orin G. Murfin, coordinator of the search, planned to abandon it. Meanwhile the chance of finding the flyers alive, according to the consensus of searchers, was already down to one in a million...
SYPHILIS: The Next Great Plague to Go- Morris Fishbein, M. D. - McKay ($1). __ TEN MILLION AMERICANS HAVE IT- S. William Becker, M. D. - Lippincott...
...from using in 14 Midwestern States any trademark derived from the words "Standard Oil." C. WThile automobile men talked of impending higher prices, off the assembly line in Flint, Mich, rolled the 13.ooo.oooth Chevrolet, just eleven months and two days after the 12,000.oooth. This was the second shortest million-unit period in the company's history. Two days later Ford Motor Co. turned out the i.ooo.oooth V8, 1937 model, built in the U. S. since production started last October. C. For the benefit of bankers and investment houses generally, and of their law- yers in particular, scholarly Director...
...last week, for ferreting out defects in thick masses of steel. At the convention of the American Society for Testing Materials in Manhattan, Physicist E. V. Lange of Radium Chemical Co. demonstrated with a capsule containing one-tenth of a gram of radium. Gamma rays shooting out at a million or more volts passed through steel castings a foot thick, photographed the interior structure on X-ray films 10 by 12 in. in size. Tested by this method are steering posts of ships, turbines, valves, high-pressure steam pipes. Dr. Lange reported that in most Army and Navy purchases...
...When the richest nation on earth permits seven million-nearly a third-of its school children to be taught by a quarter million teachers who receive less than $750 a year, and 30,000 poverty-stricken teachers who receive less than $450 a year, there is need for an awakening of civic pride in the discharge of obligations to children...