Word: periodicities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have seen free countries deteriorate into dictatorships ruled by the heavy hand of voodoo high priests. ... To seek a true comparison it is necessary to go back into that period of history when man was unlettered, benighted and bestial...
Meanwhile Poland, afraid that some of her territory may soon be grabbed by the Nazis just as she lately made a grab in Czecho-Slovakia, hastened to strengthen her sudden friendship with Russia. Traditional enemies, Russia and Poland month ago broke a long period of diplomatic coolness with a declaration of their good intentions toward each other. To this rapprochement last week was added a trade treaty which is expected to multiply thirtyfold the trade between the two nations...
...Roald Amundsen's scientific staff, now head of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in California, who found Arctic sea water warmer in 1931 than it was in 1918. The Northern Hemisphere is still recovering from the last great glaciation of the Ice Age, though for chronological purposes this period is considered to have ended some 20,000 years ago. The continental ice sheet which once covered the northern United States still exists in Greenland where it is still retreating. Despite various speculations, the reason for such climate changes is obscure...
...them changed so much in the next ten years as Glackens. With much observation his versatile eye became intensely selective. As late as 1912 he painted a simple little picture of a snowy square and a lady hailing a streetcar (see cut) which perfectly evoked an atmosphere, mood and period. Then he selected a lighter palette, and from about 1913 on, Renoir became the dominant influence in his work. Many artists have come a cropper under that influence. Glackens succeeded...
...monthly average of industrial production was no in 1937 and it will probably be 85 or 86 in 1938. It now seems likely that its average in 1939 will be about 104. . . . National income seems likely to make a new high record for the recovery period, and to be a little above the level of 1937. . . . Average freight loadings may advance about 15%. . . . Automobile output in 1939 should be between 30 and 50% larger than that of 1938*. . . . Wholesale prices will probably advance slowly. . . . It seems probable that the average price of all stocks listed on the New York Stock...