Word: totalizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arithmetic by the ton constituted the anesthetic "prologue" of the investigation. Dr. Isidor Lubin, the dark, bird-like Commissioner of Labor Statistics, presented a bale of charts to show the growth of U. S. population, industrial production (total and per capita), national income ($432 per capita in the U. S. for 1934-35), employment. Biggest headlines were accorded his estimate that between 1929 and now the country "lost 133 billion dollars of potential income," including 119 billions in workers' wages for 43 million man-years of work...
...tiny demonstrator (50 h.p., 90 m.p.h., 672 lb. unloaded), took off with 876 lb. of gasoline and did not come down until he got to New York. It took him 30 hours and 37 minutes and he set a new non-stop distance record for planes of this size. Total operating cost: $30.91. Cheapest bus fare for the trip...
...ever to appear on the West Coast. When assembled in the prospective Palo Alto plant of Sunset, the Pacific Monthly, the battery will consist of two 64-page, two-color Cottrell presses and two Cottrell-McKee multicolor presses for four-color work, along with electrotyping, drying and binding equipment. Total cost: $250,000.* All of this will start rolling next month to print a magazine which has had to peg its circulation at around 200,000 since 1930 because there were not enough big presses west of the Rockies to print any more copies...
Ignazio Silone's The School for Dictators (Harper, $2.50) is not written for those who like to play games. Tall, dark, 38-year-old Ignazio Silone, whose two novels (Fontamara, Bread and Wine) have been called the sum total of modern Italian literature, has had intense first-hand experience under a Fascist dictator. Editor of a labor paper in Trieste when Mussolini came to power, Silone was pursued by Black Shirts for three years (they killed his brother), escaped in 1931 to Switzerland, where he has since become Mussolini's most embarrassing critic...
...successfully sang one of the most difficult works ever to be written, his beaming face acknowledged a splendid job of singing. The difficult fugues in the Gloria and Credo demanding all the resources of a chorus were done superbly, the tremendous crescendos throughout the work were breathtaking, and the total effect was to have more than one person in the audience limp form emotional exhaustion...