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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most astronomers say that the galaxies, unimaginably huge, stupendously scattered collections of stars, are running away from Earth and from each other at a rate of many thousands of miles per second. They back up their assertion by catching light from a galaxy in a spectrograph, measuring how far its spectral lines have shifted, in a given period, toward the red or violet end of the spectrum. If the lines redden, that implies the galaxy is receding from the observer, stretching out its light-waves, just as a train whistle lengthens its sound-waves, becomes flatter as it moves into...
...Presidents Coolidge and Hoover. When the U. S. Congress appropriated $50,000 in 1929 for a reconnaissance survey to start the work in Central America, the first Inter-American Highway Congress was held in Panama, created a commission which has driven the work ahead at a great rate in Central America...
...share and paying $3 dividends, got $30 in dividends tax free. The Government took about $9 in taxes out of the profits kept by the company and $21 of his dollars remained in the company's hands for expansion, etc. Under the new law if the dividend rate remains unchanged he will have to pay $1.20 normal tax on his $30 dividend, the Government will take some $12.60 in taxes from the corporation and $17.40 of his money would remain for use by his company. If the corporation declares higher dividends, he may receive more in cash but more...
Declining interest in church work, said he, is largely due to laymen who "pretend to run the churches," and to a declining birth rate. "A willingness to sacrifice to have more children and to give them home Christian training is fundamental to an efficient church. . . . We old fellows can go to hell without affecting posterity, but the habits of our children are of the utmost importance. A parent begins to take his child to the movies when the youngster is 4 years old and then wonders why the child is queer when reaching the age of 16. . . . We must encourage...
Average daily U. S. death rate is 3,800 persons. Many die far from home, have to be shipped back, which on railroads costs two first-class tickets per corpse. Last week many a Midwestern undertaker, just back from a convention at Springfield, Ill., was pondering this transport problem, wondering if he could turn it to his advantage. The convention had discussed using airplanes instead...