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...could give definite answers to these questions. "This discovery," said Sir Arthur Keith sadly, "has destroyed the finer points we anthropologists depend on for drawing the line between anthropoid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Old Men | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

...this week indicates that it wants nothing less than an amendment to derive C. I. O. of a place on NLRB ballots. Said A. F. of L.'s practical editorialist: "Surely this [C. I. O. recognition] is . . . union development under Government patronage. Progressive legislation and practical democracy depend upon a united labor movement. Whatever groups or agencies give aid to insurgency within our movement defeat these purposes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Rebels' Rights? | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

...might be robbed of much-needed revenue. Steelman Wolcott replied that he bought only 55,000 tons of Pennsylvania coal a year, anyway (plus 20,000 tons from West Virginia), would continue doing so-unless continued losses forced him to close the plant. Coatesville townsfolk, about 90% of whom depend on Lukens for a living, backed his plea and last week Pennsylvania's Public Utility Commission decided Lukens could buy its gas direct from Columbia's subsidiary. Henceforth, instead of the 20,000 tons of West Virginia bituminous and 25,000,000 gallons of fuel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STEEL-FUEL: Dead End Ended | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

...long as we are resigned to crooked ness and waste in government, we will continue to have a wasteful government. As long as we depend upon intellectual trick ery instead of truth, we will continue to have crowd psychology and propaganda, instead of well-informed public opinion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Tough Cookie | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

...pupae of many butterflies do not wrap themselves in cocoons bu, 'Depend on protective coloration for security, can therefore easily be used for laboratory experiment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Half & Half | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

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