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Meanwhile, Moscow hotels overflowed with constantly arriving representatives of German shipping, oil and rye firms as well as engineers sent to help the Soviet Union improve its backward transport systems. This week two big Nazi planes brought an Economic Delegation of 14, and after they conferred with Soviet Premier Viacheslav Molotov a communiqué announced that Russia will "immediately begin supplying Germany [raw] materials and Germany begin filling orders [of finished products...
...word document, drawn up last June by Dean Ferguson, the Administration has defended the discharge of the ten assistant professors as a budgetary necessity. Furthermore, the memorandum contends that the Administration leaned over backward in an attempt to retain as many assistant professors as possible...
...Sirs: In TIME, Aug. 14 is a letter from Mr. R. Wallace Brewster of Uniontown, Pa. in which the writer says, "In our country, where many of electricity's greatest uses have been invented . . . . only one-fifth of the farms are electrified. Compared with the so-called 'backward' European nations in which the use of electricity is nearly universal, it stands as a national disgrace." The writer is evidently misinformed. America leads in farm electrification as it does in all fields of electrification. . . . In percentage of farm electrification it must be compared with areas like Canada, Brazil...
...there is one town north of the Mason and Dixon that makes an art of looking backward, it is the venerable stronghold of entrenched society, Newport...
This unique journalistic backward step was news last week because it was taken by the 175-year-old Hartford Courant, which has the longest continuous publishing history of any paper in the U. S. The Courant has not missed an issue since Thomas Green pulled its first from a hand press on October 29, 1764. It printed the Declaration of Independence as news, numbered George Washington among the subscribers who read the lively, eye-witness war correspondence of Israel Putnam. Republican since the Connecticut branch of the party was founded in its editorial rooms by Publisher Joseph R. Hawley...