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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Catalogue of Recorded Earthquakes (1606 B.C.-A.D. 1842), J. Milne's A Catalogue of Destructive Earthquakes (A.D. 1-1899). Others have brought the records up to date. Out of the records analysts have been able to decipher two groups of periodicity in earthquakes. In one group vigorous quakes occur once a year, faint ones every day. In the other group trifling temblors occur every 21 minutes and every 429 days; more or less violent ones every 11, 19, 22 and 33 years. To predict the approximate time & place of recurrence requires no great mathematical skill, especially if the seismologist...
...whenever weather permits. On eastward voyages the plane leaves the steamer 300 or 400 mi. out of Southampton, flies ahead to Southampton. Rotterdam, Cologne. Flights are attempted only between late April and October and then only when weather is good (about 90% of the time). If storms or fog occur after the takeoff, the master of the liner may order the pilot back by radio. That was done once, last autumn...
Novels in the autobiographical form which fail to describe carefully the hero's "awakening" (first woman) are now so rare that one in which this event does not even occur can be classed as a literary phenomenon. Albert Grope is a phenomenal book in other respects also. It deals in the mood and vernacular of Victorian fiction, with the humble upbringing and start in the world of a commercially enterprising but socially timid late-century Cockney Londoner. The hero, speaking in the first person, describes events preceding by 20 years his recording of them. But it takes a typically Victorian...
...expert, was given a job new to international banking. He was made Economic Adviser to the B. I. S.-an international financial bellwether, to study the statements of the central banks of various countries from month to month in an effort to spot future crises long before they can occur...
...lengthens, many corporations find themselves in extremely difficult positions. Many of them have already cut dividends and salaries. Some of them are faced with the prospect of closing down altogether and thus creating more unemployment or, alternatively, seeking temporary wage reductions. I very greatly regret that these cases should occur but I do not believe it is the duty of the government to interfere...