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...bill: 1) Government operation of the plant would produce a loss of $2,000,000 per year; 2) Muscle Shoals is no longer needed for national defense because private companies now make ample synthetic nitrogen; 3) no private company would take a restricted lease on the nitrate plant; 4) unknown millions would be required to modernize the "more or less obsolete" nitrate plant; 5) a capable board of managers believing in government operation could not be found; 6) the Government would be competing with its citizens. To take the sting out of his veto President Hoover suggested that Alabama...
Twenty-five men participated in this year's contest, two less than last year. The board of judges was composed of the following men: Dr. E. P. Herring, chairman, P. S. Wild, and M. A. Shepard. The names of the contestants were unknown to the graders, each man being assigned a number to prevent any possible prejudice in determining the winners...
Long has the desert of Ruba-el-Khali ("Abode of Loneliness"), wild, waterless, utterly unknown, remained "the white blot on the map." The southern interior of Arabia, centre of population and geography of the Old World, circled by ocean liners and near airplane routes, its 300,000 sandy square miles have challenged and beaten back explorers since the Middle Ages. No European had seen its mysterious, lethal interior until this winter hardy Englishman Bertram Thomas trekked 900 mi. across its arid wastes, from Dhofar on the Arabian Sea to Dohah on the Persian Gulf, where he emerged last week...
...same story. It was at Cannes during the famous Cannes Conference. He was covering the story for Popolo d'ltalia of Milan, of which he was then editor. I was manager of the Paris bureau and was covering it for the United Press. At that time Mussolini was practically unknown outside Italy. He scurried around with the rest of us with notebook and pencil, gathering items from Lloyd George, Briand and Lord Riddell. None of us paid him any attention. Certainly none could have foreseen that in a few years he would be one of the world's outstanding figures...
...books are news. Unless otherwise designated, all books reviewed in TIME were published within the fortnight. TIME readers may obtain any book of any U. S. publisher by sending check or money-order to cover regular retail price ($5 if price is unknown, change to be remitted) to Ben Boswell of TIME, 205 East 42nd St., New York City...