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...risen 12% in a year. The National Industrial Conference Board calculated a 21.5% rise in food prices from April 1933 to the close of last July. With bigger price rises ahead, consumers might find the prospect gloomy but the Department of Agriculture officially reassured them: "What shortages do exist can be compensated for by shifts in the diet to use more of the foods which are available in abundance. As a whole, these shifts can be accomplished without any severe burden on consumers as to cost, or any material decrease in the nutritional value of the diet...
Quite consistent with his character was the bloodless revolution subsequent to the breakdown of the Central Powers in 1918, and the comparative peace which reigned up to 1933, despite the fact that Austria, unable to exist in economic independence, was in continuous financial and moral distress...
...that, since the process has on the whole been going on for a couple of hundred years more than in the continental U. S., the proportion of those having mixed blood is higher than in any of the States. But the pure black and the pure white still exist, just as they do in Texas or Mississippi...
...Wilson Observatory's Walter Baade and Caltech's Fritz Zwicky called the matter of supernovae to the attention of the National Academy of Sciences. Last week, in The Physical Review, they brought out further details. They are inclined to believe supernovae explode so violently that they cease to exist as ordinary stars. On the surface protons and electrons coalesce into neutrons; the neutrons "rain" down toward the centre of gravity and, having no repellent electrical charges, pack close together. End product is a "neutron star"?a small, dead, enormously dense lump of matter...
Thus the Steel Labor Board becomes not a temporary but a permanent body, will exist until "in the opinion of the President" it has completed its duties. As a permanent body it makes rules and regulations, has power to hire employes and spend the Government's money...