Word: musts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What Tiberius looked like must still remain unknown despite the panels lately found under the Palazzo della Cancelleria, incidentally the most impressive artistic discovery made in Rome since the days of the Renaissance. In reporting that the main figure on the panels was the morose Emperor, TIME (June 12) was repeating an early opinion of their discoverer, Dr. Filippo Maggi. Yesterday, before the Pontifical Academy of Archeology, Dr. Maggi corrected himself, proved to many, but not all, the academicians' satisfaction that the emperor in question is Vespasian, that perhaps another figure in the marble pageant is Domitian. The Cancelleria...
Hardly had his appointment been announced when he declared: "We must have a treaty navy second to none. The United States must cease leading the disarmament movement by example." He pushed the Vinson Bill authorizing construction of 101 new ships at a cost of half a billion dollars; he upped the Navy's enlisted personnel to 100,000, authorized the creation of aerial landing facilities on Guam, Midway and Wake Islands, threatened to fortify all trans-Pacific naval bases if Japan won parity with the U. S. By the end of 1935 he could say: "I am pleased...
...Government to take up slack when private work is lagging? Or is it jobs thought up, invented and financed to occupy idle men, keep alive their working instinct, health and habits, sustain their purchasing power? Into neither of these basic conceptions fits the unions' assumption that work-relief must ensure the pay-scales for which unions have organized and fought, and by which, in fat times, they have profited...
...declared the company, was making demands and calling strikes at this critical time simply to clinch the superiority of C. I. 0. over A. F. of L. in the G. M. sector of the motor industry. G. M. insisted that before it would negotiate anew with its workers, they must go on record in an election to show which wing of U. A. W. the company deals with...
...copies) to make money. Once they tried it. In 1930 four Manhattan publishers-Doubleday, Farrar & Rinehart, Simon & Schuster, Coward-McCann-published some first editions at $1 to $1.50. They sold more copies, but lost money, dropped the experiment. To break even on a $2.50 novel, publishers figure they must sell at least 2,500 copies. On this number, they figure average costs as follows...