Word: rapidness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coordinated buying power of I.I.U.R.A.'s 200,000,000 members will make it possible for every-one in the world to work four hours a day, four days a week, eight months a year, and earn minimum pay of $3,000 a year, advancing to $30,000 by rapid salary raises. War and illiteracy will be extinct. Every family will have a $25,000 house. Pensions of $3,000 a year for oldsters will start at once. But none of I.I.U.R.A.'s benefits will be in cash. It will abolish money, substitute a new Utopian medium of exchange...
Last week the U. S. Office of Education in Washington estimated elementary school enrollment this fall at 20,206,000 pupils-1,000,000 fewer than at the 1930 peak. The downhill trend whose start accompanied a rapid fall in the birth rate during Depression is expected to continue at least until...
While waiting for Maurice to leave, Mabel made rapid progress in being "broken down and made over" by Tony, could soon sum up her past activities in ''a decadent unhappy world" thus: "I had been something like an octopus with many arms, a psychic belly, and a highly developed pair of eyes." She learned "to live in the moment," learned self-sufficiency (except when Tony was out of her sight). Particularly she learned something that made it easy to write her candid memoirs, namely, the Indian belief that "the power goes out of truth as soon...
...Massachusetts Institute of Technology got $85,000 for a big differential analyzer ('"brass brain") which makes possible rapid solution of engineering computations which would otherwise be impossible or impractically laborious...
...Maritime Commission has lately appointed Grover Loening, famed early plane designer, to advise it on such matters as subsidizing transatlantic airships or planes. Aviation folk therefore were betting last week that American Export would win Government permission for its new venture. Far less easy is likely to be the rapid establishment, without planes, personnel, experience or foreign landing rights of a long-distance airline over the world's toughest aerial route...