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...interests of your reputation which you doubtless strive zealously to maintain, I would call your attention to an unfortunate omission in your list of important exports from China. . . . China has always been practically the sole source of supply for Rattan-Reeds, used in the manufacture of Baby Carriages, Reed Furniture, Baskets, etc., at least the first of which I am sure you will agree is of vital importance to the peace and comfort of the rising generation. I believe, therefore, that any list of important commodity exports from China is quite incomplete without mention of Rattan-Reeds...
French strategists say that these forts can maintain a cross-fire amid which no army could advance or so much as a rat live. Sunk deep in Mother Earth, the forts are supposed to be able to withstand indefinitely the most powerful bombardment, the heaviest bombing...
...brick, 8 in. of cork, an air space and concrete. Within that well-insulated casing is an inner structure of ten rooms. The inner building has its own, separate foundations, is further insulated from the outer husk by 6 in. of dead air. Thermostat control and automatic air conditioners maintain the ten rooms of the icebox at any desired temperature and humidity. Year-round humidity will be kept at between 35% and 45%. Temperature will not vary more than one-tenth of one degree from 68° F. The constant conditions are essential. For in those rooms Tech men will...
...Philadelphia, Spokane, Denver, Cleveland, Detroit, Boston, Waterbury (Conn.), Dedham (Mass.), Akron (Ohio). In New York City, teachers have been giving 2% of their salaries. Last month the scot was raised to 5%,. Many grumbled, but last month's total doubled previous ones. Chicago teachers, in spite of near-destitution, maintain free lunches...
...lacking in drama were the Ford movements last week. With a sensationalism he has not attempted since he upped wages when everybody else was reluctantly promising to maintain them (TIME, Dec. 2, 1929), he declared he was "prepared to risk everything we've got. . . . We have nothing the public did not give us. No surplus exists for private benefit; every surplus is provided for future use. The future is here now and we are going to do our utmost?to risk everything if necessary to see if we cannot make what the country needs most?jobs. We're going...