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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...German bar (bear"). †In German schaf (sheep...
...world's sugar-growers to adjust production to consumption (TIME, Dec. 15). Although he had previously succeeded in uniting Java growers with the Cubans, he failed to draw the European beet-sugar producers into the agreement. Just as the conference was drawing to a close, the powerful German delegation left Brussels, announced they could not conform to the schedule given them. Private negotiations will continue, for other nations have agreed to the restriction, contingent upon Germany's eventual consent. But for the present, sugar remains one of the commodities in which overproduction outrides profits...
Steel. Last week the European Steel Cartel renewed itself, but has abandoned an ambitious program, will concentrate on settling Franco-German differences. In the U. S. steelmen cooperate as shown in the recent price raise (TIME, Dec. 15). The fact that most steel companies are completely integrated units is beneficial...
CRIME AND DESTINY-Johannes Lange -Paper Books (50?). Which is more important, heredity or environment? Johannes Lange is a German and therefore methodical. He is a criminologist and therefore curious about human behavior. Lange had heard many an argument about heredity v. environment, knew that Sir Francis Gallon in 1876 had tried to show heredity prevails, by examining the histories of twins. Skeptical of Galton's extremist conclusions, Herr Professor Lange decided to adopt Galton's method but without preconceived ideas. With painstaking cunning he set about gathering data on twins one or both of whom...
...older, equally unchaste Jim Jam Jems. When, in 1928, Jim Jam Jems' Editor Sam Clark attacked him in his magazine, Captain Billy bought him out. There after came Modern Mechanics and Inventions (later sued by Popular Mechanics on its title, and by Fritz von Opel, the German rocketeer, for an article concerning him) ; Startling Detective Adventures (sued by a North Dakota sheriff for an article which he claimed he did not write), Hollywood and two months ago, Mystic Magazine, an idea conceived in Paris by Mrs. Fawcett. Mystic Magazine capitalizes the current faddish interest in astrology and (to quote...