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...green auto is already standing there, and Emilio, his huge chauffeur, is playing with the diminutive fox terrier. . . . The Maestro raises his stick . . . sings with the music . . . 'Molto, molto, piu molto sforzato.' He wishes a strong, dramatic accent . . . a little cantilena [singing]. . . . Then, a small error in the oboes. . . . 'Ah, no no no, no no no, no no no no.' He goes back disconcerted. 'Bitte vierr tak-te vohhrr [in Italianate German: Please, four measures back]. . . . It is an esthetic pleasure merely to watch...
...That the rewards of labor be given according to competence and capacity is not new in the Soviet State, and your correspondent has repeatedly emphasized the fact that Stalinism aims at using capitalist weapons to achieve collective or Socialist results. It would be the gravest error if the midway period of the Five-Year Plan . . . should be identified in the foreign mind with anything like a retreat or recantation on the part of the Bolshevist leader...
Kaname Nakamura of the Kyoto observatory staff, when his agitation subsided, was able to trace a gross error. A reporter had misread the Japanese picture-word which described the new heavenly body. The symbol for ten, or ju, is approximately that of the mathematical plus sign (+); for 1,000 or sen, approximately that of the plus-or-minus sign (±). The careless reporter had added the upper cross bar. The new "planet" is a planetoid, about 110 not 11,000 miles in diameter. It lies between Mars and Jupiter in the general orbit of the thousand-odd other planetoids (TIME...
...second error concerns Grape-Nuts. You say our Committee on Foods will insist on a change of name because the product is not grapes and not nuts. This is wrong. Some uninformed person must have misled your representative at Philadelphia. Grape-Nuts might have been considered faultily named but the rules of the American Medical Association Committee on Foods permit names longestablished. The committee does not insist on a change of such commercial names. It does ask that a proper descriptive statement accompany distinctive trade names on labels and advertising for the information of consumers...
What Undersecretary Mills had the most difficulty in explaining was the differences between Secretary Mellon's estimates of the Treasury condition and the actual figures. Last December Mr. Mellon set the deficit at $180,000,000, an error of $723,000.000. He missed his guess on receipts by $518,000,000, on expenditures by $205,000.000. Frankly declared Undersecretary Mills: "The discrepancy was due to the difficulty [last autumn] of measuring the severity and duration of the business depression. . . . The Treasury underestimated the effects which the fall in prices and the reduction in volume of business operations would have...