Word: serialization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prevent its clerks from accepting these and other bogus bills, the U. S. Post Office Department last week described a method of detecting counterfeits-a method that every shrewd passer of the "queer" already knew. The method: divide the serial number on every bill (except a national banknote) by six. Compare the remainder with the tiny letter in the lower right corner. If the remainder...
...masquerading as objective reality. The political evolution of many other countries has not invariably followed along lines indicated in communistic theories. What makes India particularly amenable to communism is assumed rather than proved in the article. Even accepting the desirability of communism in India and conceding the possibility of serial revolutions there, is it judicious to advocate the overthrow of Ghandi at this juncture? He is successfully marching his people towards political emancipation from a foreign yoke--a condition that must precede any other desired change. This first revolution is not consummated yet. Its hard won gains may be easily...
...three special cameras have been received from Texas in the last month and have been installed in the newly completed laboratory in the north wing of the Geography Building cellar. The laboratory and its equipment are for the use of students of Geography 36, the new course in serial photography which was started this half year. The course has been under the supervision of four army officers who have piloted the photographic flights and given instruction in taking, developing, printing, and using the pictures and in map work. Each student is taken on three flights of three hours each...
...Woman Accused (Paramount). When the editors of Liberty called upon ten contributors for a chapter apiece of a serial story, they solved Paramount's problem of finding a second story with which to follow the symposium-picture, If I Had a Million. The Woman Accused has compromising situations by Ursula Parrott, faux pas by Polan Banks, neurotics by Vicki Baum, plumbing by Vina Delmar, further ingredients by Rupert Hughes, Zane Grey, Irvin S. Cobb, Gertrude Atherton, J. P. McEvoy, Sophie Kerr. It turns out to be a surprisingly unified but solidly routine story about a pretty woman (Nancy Carroll...
...raise the necessary $50,000,000 the bonds sold last week had attached to them certain peculiar features. Holders of bonds with serial numbers which turn out to be lucky will receive, during the next five years, prizes totaling $6,500,000 and each year there will be a grand prize of $50,000. Nominally 4½% bonds, they were offered and oversubscribed at 91, thus making them 5% bonds in effect...