Word: research
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Odds & Ends, 1) an appropriation of $4,000,000 for four regional research laboratories to investigate new uses, markets, and by-products for farm commodities; 2) the appropriation of $20,000,000 unexpended balance from the $500,000,000 Soil Conservation Act appropriation to finance a new Federal Crop Insurance Corporation empowered to issue policies to farmers against crop disaster; 3) a provision to limit payments to any one farmer in any one State to $10,000; 4) the recognition in principle of outright payments to farmers to make up the difference between market and "parity prices," which will...
...have been carried to the infirmary where he spent day after day foolishly making and unmaking his bed. No. 23 on a list of 26 items ''desirable for the happiness of man'' compiled by famed Dr. Edward Lee Thorndike, director of the Institute of Educational Research at Teachers College, Columbia University: "Something to be angry at and attack...
However, William H. Button, president of the American Society for Psychical Research, has remained faithful to Margery. Last week the A. S. P. R. announced the results of clairvoyance tests made with Margery, using the honor cards of an ordinary deck.* In the first series of 25 she got 22 right. In the second, all 25 right. In the third, 24 out of 25. In the fourth, all 25. Total score...
Mammoth elevated highways, which will alleviate traffic problems in cities, were visualized yesterday in a speech by Hawley S. Simpson, of New York, noted traffic research engineer, at the Harvard Bureau for Street Traffic Research. High cost would prevent them from becoming immediately practical, he said...
...attendance and certain policies of the National Socialists, a parallel suggested by the Cambridge Union of University Teachers, I should like to call the Union's attention to the remarks on Germany in Kotschnig's recent book, Unemployment in the Learned Professions, and to Lowe's article in Social Research of last September. (Kotschnig is now teaching in this country, Lowe in England.) There is considerable evidence that the fifty to seventy thousand unemployed university graduates in Germany in 1932 not only served as a breeding ground for Nazi ideas, but, as a problem, provoked widespread resentment, which also played...