Word: showing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yardlings will be required to take a new Reading Test at 9 o'clock this morning in Emerson D, and those who show a reading difficulty will be invited to enroll in the course...
...plans for holding the machine tool industry's annual show (scheduled for Oct. 4-13 at Cleveland) were abandoned. Reason: too much business. Cleveland's Monarch Machine Tool Co. sold seven of 14 machines it had planned to exhibit at the show. The company has orders enough to keep running 20 hours a day for four months. National Acme Co. in Cleveland, sold eight of its machines built for the show, was running 24 hours a day (60% of its backlog is for export). A manufacturer of presses sold 32 of them (at $400 to $3,000 apiece...
...Railroads, which in recent years have been employing fewer men than even in 1931, began to show signs of rehiring. Pennsylvania put 1,560 to work, Louisville & Nashville 650, Pittsburgh & Lake Erie 200. In the Pittsburgh area alone, 1,800 furloughed employes were recalled to handle steel and coal shipments. B. & 0. recalled 800 men for repairing and building cars & locomotives. Pennsylvania estimated that it would require 4,000 more men to repair freight cars, 2,000,000 man-hours of work on passenger cars, locomotives and new freight cars...
...quantities of heavy nitrogen (TIME, Sept. 20, 1937). Nitrogen is present in all proteins. Heavy nitrogen atoms can be distinguished from the common kind by mass spectrographic means, but in protein reactions they run along with their lighter fellows, and so serve as "tagged atoms" or chemical spies to show where the nitrogen goes. Carbon is a vital ingredient of all living substance, and by using heavy carbon atoms as tracers Dr. Urey expects physiologists to find out much more about carbon metabolism than is now known...
Triple threat Torbie Macdonald was almost the whole show Saturday morning as he led the Varsity A team to a five touchdown romp over the B team in the season's first game scrimmage at Soldiers Field...