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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...published under one cover. Records and superlatives of quantity could be applied to at endless length by anyone with a statistical turn of mind, and it is incontestably the major poetic and publishing tour de force of the year. But the reader should not confine his emotions to the sort which come from a first glimpse of the Empire State Building or the Queen Mary for in this titanic mass of reading matter there is a definite quality...
...Germany this year a "super-microscope" of this sort was announced (TIME, June 6). In the issue of the British journal Nature which reached the U. S. last week was a picture taken by Professor L. C. Martin of London's Imperial College which showed a germ called Micrococcus flavus magnified 16,000 times. Last week in Richmond, Dr. Vladimir Kosma Zworykin of RCA Manufacturing Co. showed fluorescent-screen projections, made with his electron microscope, of tungsten crystals in which the molecules themselves could be distinguished in the molecular structure...
Nebraska's "little TVA," a combination of three hydroelectric projects financed by $60,000,000 of PWA funds, encountered, besides charges of bad engineering, much the same sort of opposition as big TVA- suits, injunctions, bitter antagonism from already established power companies. As in the case of big TVA it finally boiled down to how the PWA "hydros" could market their power. The private companies were not interested in pulling the chestnuts out of the fire. Little TVA then considered building its own distributing system, which probably would mean ruin for all concerned. Then Guy Myers entered...
...personal trading account look unprofitable; he was also accused of arranging for Sisto Financial Corp. (which he controlled and which has 225 outside stockholders) to buy 1,000 shares of its stock from him at $23 a share about the same time he bought them for $15.12⅛. This sort of thing was not uncommon in the easy-going twenties. But last week SEC, District Attorney Dewey and State Attorney General Bennett launched investigations into possible criminal angles. Said Broker Sisto: "In my opinion my conduct was in all respects proper...
...matter of fact, if Yale doesn't watch out, somebody is going to take some sort of action. Indeed it is high time that Yale students take cognizance of the famed "mere presence" clause. Harvard authorities will not stand for any more nonsense, and a copy of the following will be sent to all Yale undergraduates in due time...