Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deep North to see how they managed to cast the first stone."* New York City, the indignant reporter found, was the "sweatshop capital of America," its slums squalid and crime-breeding. New England's textile cities seemed to him "not far from being industrial ghost cities." In Philadelphia, he found more slums and "the universal fear" that industry would move away. In the shadow of Bethlehem's steel mills he saw "filth and depravity" and the same methods that southern manufacturers use to resist unionization. In Washington, he found statistics to show that "low wages, long hours...
...Medicine's favored fish. Called telescope fish- because it has big. pop eyes, one out of five is so transparent that its gall bladder, intestine, heart and a big vein in the tail are easily seen. Although telescope fish cost only 3? apiece in Philadelphia, only place in the U. S. where they are bred, the visibility of their internal organs makes them precious to medical scientists, particularly to Philadelphia Pharmacologist Arno Viehoever. Dr. Viehoever discovered that the transparent water flea, Daphnia, was a marvelous creature in which to study the biological effects of drugs (TIME, Feb. 14), searched...
...Gate Canyon with the mightiest roar Montana has heard since Paul Bunyan passed by. Dead when help came were the engineer, the fireman, the brakeman, two hoboes. So shattered was the engine that railway officials despaired of determining just what had happened. But in the Northern Pacific offices at Philadelphia, 2,000 miles away, there had lain for weeks a document containing a fantastically possible answer: two typewritten pages reporting a conversation overheard on the Camden-Philadelphia ferry. Three men had been furtively plotting. Their plot: to blow up a Northern Pacific locomotive...
...Elected big, sandy-haired Reuben Taylor Shaw, a Philadelphia high-school teacher, as its president...
PAGANINI-KREISLER: CONCERTO No. 1 IN D MAJOR FOR VIOLIN AND ORCHESTRA-FIRST MOVEMENT (Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting, with Fritz Kreisler; Victor: 4 sides). Performing his own version of the Paganini movement, which he premiered in Chicago two seasons ago, 63-year-old Kreisler proves himself still the world's most ingratiating fiddler...