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...Thunderclaps. Another "proof" of the British Israelites' theory has been drawn from the Great Pyramid of Cheops. For centuries busy minds have marked off the passages inside the pyramid in a scale corresponding roughly to the calendar (about one inch representing a year). Certain markings, turns and corners along the passages have been found to correspond with historical events, and were thus used for prophecies. World War I, the Depression and World War II have been recognized on this scale and passed; dead ahead has loomed the most portentous date of all-the date upon which the pyramid...
Stalin. "Must command our unconditional respect . . . He is a beast, but he's a beast on the grand scale...
...indicated how many a farmer explained away the paradox of disliking Government interference while voting for more. From 1920 on, U.S. farmers fought relentlessly for a standard of living on a par with that of city dwellers. The first real attempt to help them on a national scale, the McNary-Haugen bill, got through Congress, but was vetoed by Calvin Coolidge in 1927 and again in 1928. The Agricultural Adjustment Acts of the '303 finally began to raise the farmer's position on the U.S. economic ladder During World War II, the farmer raced higher: export markets were...
...there is no opposition, the FCC's final adoption announcement (probably before the end of the year) will be the signal for full-scale manufacture of color sets, perhaps with some on the market within six months. Pioneering televiewers will pay $700 to $1,000 for the earliest models, but mass production is expected to bring prices down to 25-50% above the cost of comparable black & white sets. By the end of 1954, color TV ought to be available. Both CBS and RCA plan to start sample color telecasts this year...
...operators will need to pool their resources to pay for increased research and development. Wage cuts, once the standard answer, provide no solution. As the Northern mine operators' Chief Bargainer Harry Moses says: "[Wage cuts] never solved any of our problems . . . With any moderate reduction in the wage scale, the customer would soon have all the saving, and the oil and gas industries would promptly meet practically all our new prices." A more likely solution: a joint labor-management approach to the whole coal problem. Labor could make its own positive contributions, such as accepting incentive payments geared...