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...coal tie-up accounted for about one-third of the decline (see chart...
...dropped 15% to 20%. Estimates of the total loss of purchasing power ran as high as $100,000,000. Though last week's settlement came in time to prevent large-scale stoppage of factories, ships or railroads, the effects of the strike will continue to be evident in chart and index for weeks to come...
...more sympathetic reception from three Californians who agreed to finance a scheme to stimulate extra-curricular reading in American History. Next week the eight History Counsellors and the Faculty committee in charge will meet to evaluate the accomplishments of the program's first year, and to chart a course...
...that are to take her, within the next few years, to many an out-of-the-way corner of the seas. She is the Royal Research Ship Research, a trim 770-ton brigantine. Chief job of naval and civilian scientists, to be quartered in her midships, will be to chart magnetic variations, compare their readings with those taken by the Carnegie Institution's Carnegie before she blew up while taking on gasoline in Apia, Samoa...
...plagued navigators is that variation is not only different for different localities, but that from year to year the variation varies because the magnetic pole moves. No one knows why and no one knows precisely how much. Scientists do know that since famed Astronomer Edmund Halley first made his chart of variations, A.D. 1700, the variation in England has changed by more than 37°. Seaman-scientists of the Research are not sure they will discover the reason for the annual changes. But they will determine the amount of change by comparing their readings with those taken by the Carnegie...