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...Released the third of a series of 25 reports called the "census of American Listed Corporations." Prepared by WPA workers under SEC sponsorship, the reports are intended to bridge the gap between the tremendous volume of data in SEC's files and the potential users to whom it is now relatively inaccessible. The completed reports are sent to a selected list of 1,000 big brokers, bankers, statisticians, anyone else who writes in. First two were on meat packers and steel. Last week's dealt with chain variety stores. Sample fact: F. W. Woolworth...
...comes to the not very startling conclusion that the only permanent answer is an eighth House. This is actually wishful thinking, because for all practical purposes a new House must be relegated to the if and when category, dependent upon the appearance of a fairy godfather. In the stop-gap measures designed to meet the needs of the present there is more to interest the homeless three hundred, whose hearts palpitate not one whit faster at the thought of a new House ten years from...
...Freshmen--their inability to study, their lack of even a superficial acquaintance with the world's thoughts and deeds. In brief, Harvard can urge the schools to modernize their teaching of both method and content, also to give depth and integration to their training, so that the existing gap between schools and colleges may be transformed into one continuous educational growth...
...their flash, they place a spark gap close to the gun's muzzle so that the bullet passes just below the electrodes. The hot gases and burning powder which follow the bullet enable the spark to jump the gap, completing the circuit and discharging the voltage through the vacuum tube. Only one picture is taken at each shot. But by moving the spark gap nearer to or farther from the gun's muzzle, the bullet can be snapped at various points of its trajectory...
...London recently a book was published which went a long way toward filling the gap.* Written by Popularizer-Professor Julian Sorell Huxley, and containing two discs (four sides) recorded by Ludwig Koch, the book shows that a greater variety of animal sounds exists than most scientists ever suspected...