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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Embarrassed, Charleston Navy Yard's commandant glanced at the historic relic, shouted back: "Well, we have not any money for that sort of thing down here...
...immediate impression which many an observer got from the animadversions at Madison was that they were characterized by a refreshing and appealing amateurism. To this sort of audience, Governor La Follette's five-point manifesto and 9,000-word speech, apparently a family collaboration, failed to present even a pretense of a formal body of policy for progressives or anyone else to unite on. But they indicated a thorough awareness that "for ten years the Republicans and Democrats have been fumbling the ball," that the rest of the world was even worse off, and gave evidence that if Phil...
...Last week Chicagoans were still chuckling over capers of another sort. Henry Field,** grandnephew of the late Marshall Field and curator of physical anthropology at the Field Museum, had given a party with a friend at their Lake Shore Drive apartment. Guests, asked to bring live animals, turned up with a deodorized skunk, a singing duck, two colored baby chickens worn on a woman's hat, a white rat which bore a litter of ten during the party. Anthropologist Field's contributions: 1) a seal which he could not get into the freight elevator; 2) an un- housebroken...
...barytron was discovered as a product of cosmic-ray activity in the upper atmosphere. Several investigators, however, have suggested that the powerful forces which bind the nucleus of an atom together may be caused by a sort of "bubbling" within the nucleus-a continuous creation, exchange and reabsorption of heavy particles. Last week Dr. Hans A. Bethe of Cornell, a brilliant analyst of atomic behavior, showed how barytrons could perform this nuclear binding function if they exist in all three electrical states - positively charged, negatively charged, neutral...
...statement. President Walter P. Paepcke of Container Corp. last week announced his company's omission of the usual quarterly dividend. Container's first quarter net had plopped from a 1937 profit of $626,970 to a 1938 loss of $53,198. With a few exceptions the same sort of thing was being experienced last week by almost every other U. S. industry. Samples...