Word: coverly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...original subscriber and cover-to-cover reader of TIME, I was naturally much pleased to see your interestingly written article (Nov. 18) telling about my work at Field Museum in dramatizing the natural sciences for the layman in swing tempo...
Borrowing from the University should never become a gratuitous privilege open to anyone who has taken too many weekends. Where no definite rate has been stipulated by the donor, 2-3 per cent interest should be charged to cover defaults and costs of administration. A rate higher than that is unnecessary, and places an unjust burden on those who can least afford to bear it. Five per cent may be good business, but it conflicts with the very purpose for which the loan funds were established...
...year and a half ago Bob Ramspeck went up against the spoilsmen-masters of legislative sabotage. He had drafted a bill empowering the President to cover into the civil service by examinations some 200,000 job holders in 26 Federal agencies; to extend departmental Washington pay scales to the field service. This was something like combined atheism and blasphemy at a religious revival. The spoilsmen got busy at killing the bill. They gave it the works: delay, amendments that subverted its whole purpose, points of order, objections, pigeonholings, pressure. Ramspeck resurrected the measure, answered the lies, used a pulmotor...
After the war, Trader Livermore was hired to push Piggly Wiggly stock. He pushed it 52 points in a single day and cornered the market; the Stock Exchange had to set aside its rules and allow shorts five days to cover. In the 1925 wheat market ending with the Black Friday crash he bought grain in 5,000,000-bushel lots while the market was rising, turned bear at the top and sold 50,000,000 bushels short for an approximate profit of $10,000,000. Quietly sensing the end of a falling market in 1927, he bought Mexican Petroleum...
...bear of a man, endowed with inexhaustible energy, a hunger for facts, Ralph Barnes was at 41 one of the best informed journalists in Europe. He had covered most of the Continent at top speed-but his most remarkable year was 1940. When the year opened he was reporting a somnolent war with the B. E. F. Then he was transferred to Berlin, the first newsman to cover both sides of World War II. His wife and two young daughters went home to the U. S. With the German Army when it rolled into Dunkirk, Barnes saw the desolate beach...