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...been dry for five rainless months. Lake Michigan reached its lowest stage in a decade. The Mississippi was lower than it had ever been. On the Great Lakes, cargo boats went 25% light to get over the shoals. Aviators had to climb 5,000 ft. above Omaha to surmount sulphur-colored dust clouds. But the distress to navigators, airmen and city folk was nothing to the desperation of Midwestern farmers, as they watched their fields incinerate, their cattle actually perish of hunger and thirst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Raw Red Burn | 6/11/1934 | See Source »

...roster of the last few months has rubbed the public conscience raw. Pure economics always blocked slum-clearance, but in the open-handed lending policies of the New Deal crusaders have seen an opportunity to solve the problem once & for all. So far no one has been able to surmount the fact that new tenements cannot be built to rent so cheaply as the old. The two chief factors in rentals are: 1) the interest rate on borrowed money; 2) the price of land. Land in the depths of Manhattan's slums costs $8 per sq. ft. Even with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Tenements | 4/2/1934 | See Source »

...Kokumin Shimbun. "Light comes from the East! Japan and Manchukuo have become the centre of the world with Japan standing as the Guide to Civilization. . . . What care we for the jealousy and oppression of the Western Powers? Whatever the persecution to be suffered and the sacrifices demanded, we must surmount all obstacles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Centre of the World! | 9/26/1932 | See Source »

...nations of the British Commonwealth. Soon after he stepped upon Canadian soil Lord Bessborough struck the note that must and will be sounded again & again during the Imperial Economic Conference. "I feel," said His Excellency, "that our interests are being more closely linked day by day." This sentiment may surmount Irish hatred, Indian passive resistance and Dutch-begotten South African suspicion of the Mother Country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMONWEALTH: Imperial Conference | 7/25/1932 | See Source »

...School can readily visualize a composite picture of the difficulties involved, and obtain an adequate knowledge upon, which to base their study of possible solutions. The teachers will receive helpful advice, and the professors will be enabled to prepare their own students in the School of Education to successfully surmount these difficulties when they actively enter the teaching field. The School may thus be kept abreast of the ever changing problems and needs of the educational world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A DOUBLE-EDGE PROPOSITION | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

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