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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stood for election to any office and was primarily a professor of economics and an expert in central banking (TIME, April 8, 1935). Professor van Zeeland was brought in as a compromise coalition Premier chiefly because King Albert had repeatedly brought him in as an economic counselor whose services previous Belgian Cabinets had found effective, disinterested. Under his expert management as Premier the devaluation of the belga-made inevitable by the devaluation of the currencies of the Great Powers -was carried through with skill and success in sharp contrast to the awful bungling at Paris of the devaluation...
...axiomatic that previous records count for practically nothing in the H-Y classic, and almost as axiomatic that upsets prove the rule. Impartial, outside speculations on this game have almost always been on a 50-50 basis because it is realized that when two teams go all-out at a high emotional tension, anything can happen...
...California's Frank W. Fuller last week whizzed out of Vancouver, crossed 20 miles of Canada, 1,184 miles of U. S. and penetrated 5 miles into Mexico, landing at Agua Caliente 4 hours, 54 minutes after his takeoff. Flyer Fuller cut 34 minutes off the best previous time for linking the three North American nations, claimed to have used but 670 h.p. in his flight...
...building, prime hope for renewed industrial upswing, continued to tread water as lumber output, already off 15% from last year, sagged 9% more. Automobile production was down from the previous week to 89,770 units, compared with 84,780 for the same week last year. Makers were notably laggard about buying materials, and the New York Herald Tribune predicted a downtrend in the next few weeks. Electric power production fell but was still 4% above last year. Rug sales are a good prosperity gauge because rugs lie as close as any luxury product to the hard floor of necessities. Last...
...heat and energy relation in the destruction of sewage matters has also been investigated; previous research has shown that the combustible gases evolved in the process of destruction may be burned as fuel to increase the temperature of the digesting organic material, and thereby hasten the digestion by stimulating the life activities of the organisms of decay...