Word: whether
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the three agents and the prosecutor were sent to jail themselves for from five to ten years. The released children were asked whether they even knew what Fascism was. "We have seen Fascists in the movies," they confessed. "They go about in white caps...
Some of these analogies are so much more obvious than brilliant that they will disappoint readers accustomed to the fire works of other Haldane writings. Whether or not a conversion to Marxism involves paralysis of the sense of humor, the au thor apparently decided that he could make the best impression with this book by assuming an air of grave reasonable ness. Despite this effort, many readers will find it less a proof of the scientific validity of Marxism than a collection of opinions on science and Marxism by John Burdon Sanderson Haldane...
Into action last week went the first transcontinental airway ever born full grown. It was also the first airline to span Canada, bridging the 2,688 miles between Montreal and Vancouver. The 130,000,000 U. S. citizens have only just begun to support their three transcontinental air routes. Whether the passenger traffic from 11,120,000 Canadians could support one did not bother Trans-Canada's operators. The line is Government-controlled and should pay its way by airmail revenue alone...
...Herex has been able to pay interest on its bonds only because it collects $750,000 a year rent from the American. But its Sunday edition sells 1,000,000 American Weeklies. Joe Connolly is working desperately to save Chicago for Hearst, and his success or failure may determine whether Hearst remains a national publisher of newspapers...
...last year (Sunday circulation was up slightly to 6,714,430), the retrenchment of Hearst is almost over and Trustee Shearn's main task for a good many years will be to pay bills, reduce bonded indebtedness and get Hearst's real estate out of hock. Whether he can do that depends on readers, advertisers and creditors. Readers are fickle and advertisers scary, but the banks and newsprint manufacturers who are Hearst's largest creditors cannot afford to let Hearst fall apart...