Word: zero
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the opponents were lined up and ready to clash in court. But when zero hour came, W. N. U.'s amiable Vice President Edward C. Johnston astounded Manhattan financial editors by quietly handing out a brief announcement that there would be no fight. W. N. U. would continue to pay its 6% bondholders their 6%. All hands agreed to drop reorganization proceedings. On its part, the Fish management attributed this change of heart to improvement in rural business conditions. Everybody seemed pleased. Next day, W. N. U.'s bonds, with $8 back interest accruing, shot...
...Merriam's broad surveys of fossils and artifacts convince him that man in the U. S. is at least 100,000 years old. Dr. William Francis Giauque, 40, of the University of California, holder of the U. S. record for low temperature (.16° C. above Absolute Zero), discoverer of two variant forms of oxygen weighing 17 and 18 atomic units instead of the ordinary 16; the Chandler medal of Columbia University...
...miles by ship, was Boris Magids, a stocky, bright-eyed little Jew who is "farthest north" in the chain-store business. His half dozen stores are spotted along 1,000 miles of the Arctic Ocean on Alaska's Kotzebue Sound in Eskimo villages with such sub-zero names as Deering, Keewalik, Shishmaref, Kobuk. Gross libel was the press report that his Seattle visit was the first time he had been "outside" in 27 years. Rated one of the Arctic's shrewdest judges of raw furs and hard liquor, Boris Magids journeys to Seattle each year to replenish...
Think of the opportunities for graft in all this. When Tammany comes back into its rightful zamindary, taxes can be raised on all buildings and all land beneath, large districts condemned, appraised at almost zero (on account of the high taxes), paid for at that price, and a low - cost, tax-free, housing project begun under governmental aegis...
...luncheons, executive travel, and office supplies have been explained away by the Governor's secretary as justifiable, since used in spreading "hope and joy among the people." The people has indicated that it will no longer stand for such mummery. The lieutenant-governor's office-assistance appropriation was at zero for one hundred and fifty years, but in 1930 possibilities of treasure accruing to this post were discovered, and for 1936 $7100 is requested in the budget. It is suggested in the report that "the legislature may well now seriously consider the desirability of the complete elimination of this unjustifiable...