Word: minima
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seven-man national Bituminous Coal Commission in Washington, with the major purpose of creating minimum prices for soft coal. In a city where frustrated bickering is a fine art, the Bituminous Coal Commission set a new high before it finally produced its first set of minima two months ago (TIME, Dec. 27). Carter Coal at once sought an injunction against them on pea-sized coal prices, on the ground that the actions of the Commission were unconstitutional, and last week it got it from the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan. But Carter Coal's thunder was stolen...
Coal prices to railroads which buy in bulk have always been substantially lower than prices to home owners and other small consumers and a prime conviction of the Coal Commission is that rebate practices have favored industry and railroads at the expense of small consumers. Therefore, in setting up minima, the Commission arbitrarily raised the price of railroad coal to a level nearer that for small consumers. The A. A. R. protested through John Carson, consumers' counsel, whose job was specially created by the Guffey-Vinson Act to protect the consumers' interests. But the B. C. C. refused...
...Guffey-Vinson Act creating a seven-man National Bituminous Coal Commission. This body, with powers much like those of an NRA code authority (minus jurisdiction over labor practices), had as its first big job to fix minimum coal prices. Last week it gave birth to its first set of minima, to the outspoken approval of almost all coal men, the bitter disapproval of coal's best customers-industry and railroads...
...Earth, the effect of excess radiation received during sunspot maxima is to evaporate more water, bring on heavier rainfall, and thus paradoxically make the average temperature slightly cooler than during sunspot minima. The eleven-year sunspot cycle has been traced in the growth rings of trees. Stronger ultraviolet radiation accompanies sunspot activity and the aurora borealis displays are more numerous and brilliant, probably due to an increased bombardment of electrified particles. Such influences are now generally accepted as proved. It is the problem of sunspot correlation with such human affairs as stockmarket trends that leads out on the limb...
Tota fabula iocorum est plena, qua de causa videbitis et professeres doctors et studiosos pueros perpetuo risu pulmones agitare. Histriones autem sunt omnes ad fabulam huius modi agendam aptissimi, nam minima cum difficultate Latine loquuntur, gestus vehementissimos faciunt, etiam saltare possunt. Ille quidem quie et Scaphae et Phanisci partes agit, videtur reapse saltatrix Romana esse. Et qui partes senum agunt, re vera ad similitudinem accedunt, baculis suis innituntur, barbas suas permulcent; qui partes invenum agunt, maxime iuveniles esse videntur--fervidi, ebriost, prodigi. Practerea enm personas et omne proscaenium theatre Romano simillimum spectabitis ac tibias audietis, putabitis ves non Cantabrigiae...