Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conspicuous mustache, is the secretary (i.e., head) of the Smithsonian Institution, a distinguished authority on the sun, a longtime observer of variations in solar radiation. Dr. Abbot believes that on solar radiation depend temperature and precipitation on earth. He has found in the solar variations a number of periodicities which fit into a 23-year cycle and an even more important cycle of 46 years. Matching the cycles with actual weather records has provided, he declares, partial confirmation. Testifying last week on the Smithsonian's budget needs before a House appropriations subcommittee, he gave it as his opinion that...
...believe, on the very verge of recovery from the drought of the last 46-year period," said Dr. Abbot. "We have no expectation of another one of such great consequence until 1975, although . . . there will be a minor one during the decade...
...refused to aid the Erie. While some Erie bonds broke as much as 16 points and its common stock fell from $6.25 to $3.25, the Erie thereupon defaulted on $1,849.000 interest due on six bond issues. Unless some drastic remedy could be found in the six-month period of grace provided for in the bonds, * the Erie seemed headed for reorganization under section 77 of the Bankruptcy...
...This week Erie managed to pay the interest due on the only one of the six bond issues which had but a 30-day period of grace. Also aroused over Erie's situation last week was Senator Burton Wheeler whose investigation of railroads was proceeding busily (see p. 53). While Jesse Jones wants to save all major railroads, Senator Wheeler favors letting weak roads, however important, "go through the wringer." Irked at the ICC's allowing RFC to aid H. & O. and its willingness to aid Erie, Senator Wheeler last week demanded that the ICC be reorganized because...
...Colbert, or the Bickers of Holland; to measure familiar swindles and honest accomplishments against ancient examples. U. S. millionaires compare well in both respects with their predecessors. Squelched at first by the landed gentry, then by Southern aristocrats, U. S. businessmen wielded their power openly only for a brief period after the Civil War, until their corporations grew so vast that "like kings of Egypt, the later businessmen were buried under their own pyramids...