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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Secretary of Commerce Roper undertook to explain the "apparent inconsistency" between the Government's policy of retrenchment and the NRA's policy of expansion. His prime points: 1) Business and industry began to deflate expenses immediately after the 1929 crash whereas for four years the Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 28, 1933 | 8/28/1933 | See Source »

Between August 1914, and Feb. 4, 1920, 579 V.C.'s were awarded, whereas there were 8,991 D.S.O.'s given, and bearing in mind the length and magnitude of the War and the number of men in the British Services engaged in it, the percentage of awards is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 28, 1933 | 8/28/1933 | See Source »

In reprisal King Feisal's commander on the Irak-Syrian frontier, fierce Bekir Sidqui Beg, hired Kurds to reenforce his troops and started a slaughter of all Assyrians he could lay hands on, despite the fact that wolf-raiding Rebel Yaku headed a band of not more than 1...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAK: Border Massacre | 8/28/1933 | See Source »

Working with "coincidence counters" last year, the University of Padova's Professor Bruno Rossi, foremost of Italy's cosmic ray researchers, thought he had snared in his apparatus the trace of a radiation that came neither from outer space nor from earth's radioactive substances. It seemed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cosmic Spray | 8/21/1933 | See Source »

That was a long way down. So last week when Steel issued its second quarter report, the important point was not that it was still under water (net loss $8,627,000) but that its rise had been at a very rapid rate. Whereas three months ago it had a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Earnings | 8/7/1933 | See Source »

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