Word: oct
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Belgium it is customary for the King to say a good deal more than this on issues of Government policy (TIME, Oct. 26) but in England many authorities consider it "unconstitutional" and last week, when new King George VI & Queen Elizabeth undertook to visit South Wales, it was something of a test case whether they would express themselves about what they saw. As a matter of fact nothing has been "done for Wales." The Government do not claim to have brought about the pick-up in Welsh coal exports which has reduced the registered unemployed figure to 33,000, increased...
...Blanche de Castille, Archduchess of Austria, and 63-year-old Marie Beatrice Therese Charlotte, Princess of Massimo. The necklace: a riviere of 29 stones with 13 pendants which the city of Paris presented to Queen Marie Antoinette of France and which adorned her throat before the guillotine severed it Oct...
What caused last week's marriage stampede in Chicago was another war, not in Europe this time but right at home -the 1937 U. S. war on venereal disease (TIME, Oct. 26). The Law had stepped in to help fight a battle for Medicine. Beginning July 1 no marriage license could be issued in Illinois without a physician's certificates that both parties had passed tests showing freedom from syphilis and gonorrhea.*By no means were all Illinois' last-minute licensees tainted: many wished to avoid the added expense (up to $25) of the medical tests; others...
...Smithsonian Institution's tireless Ales Hrdlicka recently caused an anthropological stir by discovering in the Aleutian Islands the skull of an Aleut which had a capacity of 2,005 cc. (TIME, Oct. 12). This was the largest on record in the Western Hemisphere, the largest anywhere except for one huge, famed Russian head: that of Novelist Ivan Turgenev which was measured at 2,030 cc. Last week a fragmentary skull found in Virginia and assembled at the Smithsonian outstripped even Turgenev's by an amazing margin, took indisputable first rank as the biggest head ever to pass under...
...ordinary low-power, short-wave radio set could conceivably be depended upon to carry 100 miles or more through the air. Possibly inspired by American Telephone & Telegraph Co.'s coaxial cable which can carry a frequency band wide enough for television for thousands of miles (TIME, Oct. 14, 1935), the Los Angeles engineers installed, at each end of the line, low-power transmitters using about 80,000 kilocycles, and these high frequency signals are impressed on the electric power cables. Through this broad channel they ride easily so that messages are clearly heard by any patrol car, provided...