Word: true
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...certainly true that Antarctic coal will not be important to the U. S. in the near future. However, no mineral could be more valuable, in the perpetually frozen country where artificial heat is essential for maintaining human life. . . . There are many contacts between batholitic intrusions and ancient sedimentary rocks which generally are the locations of valuable mineral deposits. No great mineral bonanzas have been discovered to date. However, no continent the size of Antarctica has failed to produce a wealth of mineral deposits...
...week provided additional evidence that the Polish crisis was just one of several factors depressing stock prices. War markets have a normal pattern: ordinarily, a war scare forces stock prices down (because businessmen want cash) .and commodity prices up (because Governments and corporations want essential supplies). London markets ran true to form last week; most commodities rose because of speculative war stocking (including heavy copper and rubber buying by Germany). Instead of following the pattern, U. S. commodity prices marched downhill like stocks (the Bureau of Labor Index remained at its low; Dow-Jones and Moody commodity indices each fell...
...country is naturally concerned with the attainment of proper objectives rather than any one of many possible methods proposed for the accomplishment of the end. . . . It is true that the precise method [for New-Dealizing the Court] which I recommended was not adopted, but the objective, as every person in the United States knows today, was achieved. The results are not even open to dispute...
...Louis Post-Dispatch, and by pretty Ruth Sheldon in the Saturday Evening Post. Mr. Guffey told the Senate he was "sure" Childs had "received other compensation for sending that story out than that which he receives from his regular employer," added that the same was "no doubt" true of Miss Sheldon. For these remarks Senator Guffey could not be sued, because of Congressional immunity for remarks on the floor. But seven days later Newshawk Childs sued Guffey for $100,000 slander, charging that the Senator had made similar statements "in the presence of others...
...with her mother (a Methodist minister's widow) in a small upper-West Side apartment. When she got home she started practicing for her first public recital, at Town Hall in November. Said she: "My week has been so exciting I can't believe it's true...