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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although this still is many thousands in a small space it is low enough-as compared with previous evacuations-for a laboratory man to become ecstatic." The pressure obtained is equivalent to one hundred-millionth of a millimetre of mercury, which is not far from one hundred-billionth of atmospheric pressure...
Last week, reversing the Circuit Court of Appeals at Philadelphia, which in April 1937 reversed a previous decision of its own, the Supreme Court of the U. S. settled the breakfast-food issue. Out of a solemn huddle came the Justices with a decision that the term "shredded wheat" did not belong solely to National Biscuit Co. Six-to-two (dissenters: Justices McReynolds and Butler), they found "shredded wheat" simply a generic term by which a "biscuit in pillow-shaped form is generally known to the public...
Defeating Harvard, Yale and Princeton in, one season is something that no previous Dartmouth team has ever done. Victor over all other opponents as well, the boys from the Hanover hills boasted a string of 22 games without defeat when they met Cornell, their most formidable opponent of the year, last week. But against Cornell's stonewall line, Dartmouth met its Waterloo. In one of the most exciting games of the week, a great Cornell team reminiscent of the days of George Pfann and Eddie Kaw, bottled up the famed Dartmouth backfield trio of MacLeod, Hutchinson and Howe, handed...
President Roosevelt (after eloquent lobbying for publishers by his old friend Lawyer Morris Ernst) proclaimed the postage rate on books containing all reading, no advertising matter, cut from 8? to 1? a pound. Publishers, who have long chafed against higher rates for books than for magazines (previous cost of mailing a 2-lb. book from New York to Los Angeles: 26?: a 2-lb. magazine: 3?), urged the reduction to enable them to reach the 32,000,000 U. S. rural and small-town dwellers who have no access to bookstores...
Philip Murray, white-haired head of the steel workers' organizing committee, chairman of the "peace makers" and one of CIO chieftain John L. Lewis' closest advisers, said previous peace talks with the American Federation of Labor would be reviewed tonight and future steps discussed...