Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After listening to my "Econ" students freely discuss the New Deal for the past six years I wish to submit the essence of three schools of thought as to the meaning of the term...
...organized labor even when it takes money out of farm pockets. Hero of such conservative Farmer-Laborites is bespectacled Hjalmar Petersen, onetime lieutenant governor who served four months as Governor after the death of Boss Floyd Olson in 1936, once quit the party for a time because he thought it was going Communist. Last week, the party went to the polls to choose between Governor Benson and onetime Governor Petersen in its gubernatorial primary, to settle which was the stronger side of Farmer-Labor's hyphen...
...FORTUNE pointed out last week in an article on K.C.L. A2, Continental's scientists and executives had no idea of making a record when the well was started. Encouraged by oil and gas strikes in a radius of 25 miles, they thought they would hit producing sand at 9,000 or 10,000 ft. They "spudded in" at midnight on June 21, 1937, using a 20-in. bit. In drilling for oil, the bit is carried on a shaft of hollow pipe, in 30-ft. lengths screwed together. A powerful steam engine on the surface spins the pipe...
...hippopotamus, which looks like its sesquipedalian name, is actually so called because a Greek traveler thought it resembled a "horse of the river." Like horses, most hippos are kind and gentle, though a few are extremely cruel at times. Ordinarily docile is Rosie, 15-year-old, 3,000-lb. female hippo in Manhattan's Central Park Zoo, who last week gave birth for the first time. Despite zookeepers' precautions, Rosie butted her newly-born unmercifully, refused it food. The baby hippo, a 52-lb. male, was moved to a separate cage, fed goat's milk and cream...
...Communications Act of 1934, giving the FCC the job of setting rules for radio's participation in political campaigns. Since the Communications Act became law, four years of election campaigns have passed into history, one Presidential contest. Loud cries of foul! rose from candidates who thought themselves victims of station discrimination. But the FCC left its mandate untouched...