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...record was time and found to take three minutes for one complete playing and changing, which means that it would take fifty hours for the one thousand playings that the needle is advertised to do without harming the record. Notice that this is a very favorable test from the standpoint of RCA, since if the record would wear at all, it should wear down to the shape of the needle (it's supposed to fit at the outset.) A more strenuous test would be to use the needle on different records for a thousand times...
...have been collecting material for some time to undertake a speech giving expression to my views from a national standpoint on the subject of Industry and Agriculture. ... I have seen my fellow countrymen in every business occupation and profession. ... I have heard their story. ... I hope I am not too bold in saying that I have become acquainted, in part at least, with their intimate needs and problems...
...number of Frenchmen killed in battle should in the near future exceed the number of Germans killed by 37,500 a month (450,000 a year), the military consequences will be serious. From the military standpoint it is equally serious that France's man power has actually fallen behind German man power at the rate of 450,000 men a year. Last year, for example, 750,000 little Germans were born as against only 300,000 little Frenchmen...
...Harvard's sharply stratified society, the two great classes, students and Faculty. They will say, "During the exam period the relationship of these two strata of society undergoes its profoundest change." It is strange they haven't thought of making such a study before this. From the sociologist's standpoint, it has everything...
From an international standpoint, the Republicans argue that nations fearing war are going to become more and more self-sufficient at the expense of lowering their standards of living and losing what free enterprise they have left. Therefore our foreign trade will be destroyd in any case, they say. But it is obvious that we should do everything in our power to construct a system for holding and increasing our foreign trade. The reciprocal trade agreement is a powerful weapon in lowering the tariff barriers of other nations as well...