Word: short
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...station CMQ (Havana). Appearance of station CMQ on the NBC rate card moved Cubans out of the eavesdropping fringe right into the U. S. radio listening family. For $200 a sponsor can buy one hour on station CMQ, and the Cubans will throw in an additional, concurrent hour on short-wave station COCQ (Havana), bringing in additional South and Central American listeners...
College graduates, like the rest of the U. S. population, believe three children in a family is ideal. But while the average family on relief goes over that quota, the average college graduate's family falls short. To find out why, Dr. John C. Flanagan, assistant director of the American Council on Education's Cooperative Test Service, made a minute study* of 300 families of professional people...
...would not result in overproduction, provided prices and wages were not fixed but were allowed to reach the highest possible levels "consistent with maximum production." He believes that putting all the nation's productive facilities to work would automatically create enough demand to consume the increased output. In short, he agrees with the famed Brookings Institution concept that real prosperity is a result of increasing production and lowering prices, and he suggests taxation as a method of putting the theory into effect...
Three years ago a 395-pound Russian housewife waddled into the office of Professor James Joseph Short of Columbia University Medical School and announced that she wanted to reduce. Undismayed, Dr. Short gave her a thorough physical examination. She was only 32 years old, was in good health. The cause of her obesity was not malfunctioning of her thyroid gland but plain overeating. Dr. Short prescribed a well-balanced diet of proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins and minerals amounting to only 600 calories...
...Skiing," said Niles, "is so popular because it offers such a varied amount of amusement and exercise. For the person who likes to take long hikes, there is cross country skiing. For the person who likes short and speedy excitement with a group of other skiers, there are the open slopes...