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Although unemployment is a primary U. S. problem, finding the right job is an important secondary one. There is no official U. S. agency to chart job trends and steer youth into the most promising occupations. Last year two smart, jobless young men started an unofficial agency to do it. By last week, when they finished their first year, their enterprise had grossed $100,000 and they had become leading authorities on job hunting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Job Hunters | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...master of Sirdhana, was guilty of wrongful default in not finding out the position of the mine field. Second Officer Thomas Gerard Green was guilty of wrongful default in not transmitting to Captain Fairburn messages received about the mine field, whose location was not marked on Sirdhana's chart. Second Officer Green was censured, Captain Fairburn deprived of his master's certificate for one year (but permitted to act as mate meantime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Regulations | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...Rhea began to average and chart stockmarket prices, to study the Dow Theory. He found that he could concentrate so heavily that pain was forgotten and at the end of the day he was exhausted and could sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Prophet in Bed | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...will see also that the child has no fluids to drink after five o'clock, that he empties his bladder before he gets into bed, and that he is roused to void completely again at a later hour. Punishment is out of place." Each child should have a chart on which he pastes a gold star "in celebration of every dry night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dry Nights | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...bearing, of a U-boat was not enough to locate it. But if each of three patrol vessels, say a mile apart, picked up submarine sounds, determined the bearing, then communicated their bearing readings to the other two by wireless telephone, three direction lines could be drawn on a chart and the point where the lines intersected was the quarry's approximate location. Another such "fix," obtained a few minutes later, would show the submarine's course and speed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ears Under Water | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

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