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...confirmed by the League: 1) No slave markets exist in Liberia, but forced labor indistinguishable from slavery is used on nearly all Government works, frequently diverted to private works by corrupt officials; 2) Children are "pawned" by their parents to work until the parent's debt is discharged; 3) Contract laborers are shipped to French Congo, Spanish Fernando, "under conditions of criminal compulsion...
Like Golfer Robert Tyre Jones Jr., last week tennis's William Tatem Tilden II formally announced his retirement from amateurity. Also like Golfer Jones, he has signed a film contract (with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). In his open letter to the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association, said he: "I shall never coach professionally, but I will always be glad to help any person in the tennis ranks whom I care to. . . . The future Davis Cup Team . . . should be built around [George] Lott...
...feel that the Ford concession should have been give to no alien, have been circulating rumors that the whole Ford rubber plantation was about to be given up (TIME, Dec. 15). Tropical diseases were making too great inroads. Seedlings were not growing. But last month, two years after the contract went into effect, officials of the Companhia Ford Industrial do Brazil could announce that nearly 3,500 acres of jungle had already been cleared, 1,990 acres planted; nearly 196,000 seedlings were sprouting in the nurseries...
...original relativity theory stated that space is curved by the matter it contains, that the size of the finite universe is dependent upon matter. Abbé Lemaître, Belgian mathematician, investigated Einstein's universe, found that it would be unstable, would necessarily either expand to infinity or contract to a point. Immediately astronomers looked at the stars, measured the amount of spectral shift in starlight (the Doppler effect). They found most starlight shifted towards the red end of the spectrum, interpreted it to mean movement away from the earth (TIME, Oct. 6), concluded that material bodies were spreading...
...uled airline (662 mi.). Not only Pan American will scrutinize the new passenger operation, but also the observers for Imperial Airways and Aeropostale, interested with it in the projected transatlantic service. Meanwhile, profound mystery surrounded the sudden withdrawal of the Post Office advertisement for bids for the transatlantic mail contract. Assistant Postmaster General Glover would say only that the advertisement had to be revised, and unnamed "ambiguities" straightened out. But Representative Joseph W. Byrns opined it was because the Post Office had neither the authority to establish such a line, nor the money to pay the successful bidder...