Word: rare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same time Reno, for instance, does have cold, snowy win ters; but her summers are never hot. While Reno is summering with coolish days, and cooler nights, Las Vegas in the southern part of the state is experiencing hot dry days; but wit! most of her nights cool. So rare is snow ir Las Vegas, that when a light snow covered the ground one January morning in 1930, many of the grammar-school children, and a few high school youths saw snow flakes for the first time m their lives. MRS. A. C. DELKIN Arcadia, Calif...
Cauldron. Rare news last week was a move toward industrial peace, made when Remington Rand's hard-boiled President James H. Rand Jr., after defying a National Labor Relations Board order to reinstate and bargain with 4,000 of his employes who have been on strike since last May (TIME, March 22), visited Secretary of Labor Perkins in Washington and worked out a settlement with which she announced herself "extremely well pleased." Less pleased with Mr. Rand's terms, the strike leaders pondered, postponed acceptance. Elsewhere in the seething cauldron of U. S. Labor...
...preferred stock issue. Part of the money will be used for expansion, including a rolling mill in Australia, the rest for retirement of outstanding bonds and old preferred stock. The refunding will probably save the company something in money costs and leave it in that rare position, a steel company virtually free of funded debt...
Proxima Centauri, the sun's nearest neighbor among the stars, is 25 trillion miles away from Earth. Even if it had a family of planets, no telescope could reveal them. According to Sir James Jeans, a star which has a brood of planets must be an exceedingly rare thing in the sky; the solar system may be unique among the billions of stars which constitute the Milky Way galaxy. To Sir James it is a simple matter of mathematical probability. He has done much to propagate the "tidal theory" of the solar system's origin which is probably...
...Springfield, Ill. issued 1,500 copies of a small monograph called The Lung by Anatomist William Snow Miller of the University of Wisconsin. Price was $7.50. The issue was sold out in a fortnight and last week zealous doctors offered as high as $50 for a copy. This rare situation in the history of medical publishing was attributable to the fact that in the history of medicine there had never before appeared so thoroughgoing a study of the human lung. Dr. Miller's 20g-page monograph-including an affectionate dedication to his wife who was once his student-took...