Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First announced by President Conant in his Report for 1935-1936, the work of the faculty Committee on the Extra-Curricular Study of American History has been steadily expanded. The Raiding List, prepared by the Committee and published by the University in 1937, has attracted widespread attention; more than six thousand copies have been mailed out in response to inquiries from persons not connected with the University...
...theory that safety is a meaningless word unless all the hazards are properly understood. Air Facts has undertaken, to report every 30 days full details and "assumptions" concerning every private flying crash of serious consequence in the U.S. Last week Air Facts presented its score for this year's first nine months: 175 pilots and passengers killed in 109 accidents, 81.7% due directly to pilot mistake or faulty judgment. It found only 4.6% due to structural failure. More than half the accidents resulted from stalls (failure to maintain minimum flying speed), mostly during low altitude acrobatics (in which, comments...
...without a commentator until Mutual's Publicist Lester Gottlieb called in a friend, Quincy Howe, who had rarely been heard over radio before. After a 15-minute audition of comment on fake news bulletins, Howe was hired and told to report at once. Little, loquacious, quick, Quincy Howe is the author of the satire England Expects Every American to Do His Duty. MBS was afraid he was too inexperienced, but after breezing through his first broadcast without a hitch, he remarked casually: "I was grateful that I got off on the nose...
...beams welded to a tractor, the machine has hydraulically adjusted, sharp-edged disks which cut the cane at top and bottom, handling 15 to 20 tons of cane per hour, has four-inch rubber cleats on its tires which enable it to negotiate deep mud. According to one eyewitness report, it "cut sugar cane from ten to twelve feet tall . . . stripped it, topped it, bunched it in piles and collected in separate piles the tops for stock feed." Inventor Wurtele claims that it does the work of 50 to 60 field hands...
...Bureau of Agricultural Engineering dispatched an investigator to look over the Wurtele harvester, would venture no comment whatever as to its practicability pending his report. If the machine should prove practical and come into widespread use, it would affect mainly the labor economy of Florida and Louisiana, which between them account for almost all the raw cane sugar (400,000 tons last year) raised in the U.S. proper...