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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Ralph Winfred Tyler, University of Chicago's famed chief examiner and professor of education, believes that U. S. high schools and colleges do not teach students to think. Because pedagogues lack even the means of finding out whether students can think, Professor Tyler and colleagues spent three months thinking up a test of thinking. Last month, having excogitated 290 questions and created perhaps the most elaborate thinking test ever devised, they stunned a group of the nation's smartest high-school graduates with it. The examinees were 1,407 high-standing students, trying for 34 University...
French Cinemactress Annabella last month, the first test of whether matrimony will cut down his phenomenal feminine following. Slushed Louella ("Lolly") Parsons in her Hearst column last fortnight: "Frankly, and if I can judge by the batch of letters that have come to this desk recently, the youngsters are brokenhearted (at least for the moment) over the marriage of their hero, Ty Power. Mildred and Harold Lloyd told me their two daughters practically went into a decline when they heard...
...Prague by the Gestapo. Last week unlucky Correspondent Gedye (pronounced Geddy), a brisk, bright-eyed Englishman, paying his first visit to Manhattan, was offered his choice of two new posts. The Times would send him to Moscow or to Mexico City, its vacancy in Rome having been filled last month by Spanish War Correspondent Herbert L. Matthews. Although Hitler has caught up with him in his last two posts, Correspondent Gedye, feeling sure the next major crisis would come in Western Europe, probably over Gibraltar, sailed gaily for Russia at week...
Starting June 1, any Ford employe of two years' standing may take out $1,500 in term life insurance plus $15 weekly sickness and accident benefits. The premium is $1 a month deducted from paychecks and matched by at least an equivalent sum from the company. How much Ford will kitty in remains to be calculated by actuaries, but will probably come to some $1,200,000 a year. Employes will pay $1 a month no matter what their age, need take no physical exams. Because the average age of the entire group is expected to remain constant...
...some $18,500,000,000 of new money was put to work, but only 26,000,000 tons of steel were produced, and there were about 10,000,000 unemployed. In 1937 about $21,000,000,000 of new money held production at the 1929 level for only one month...