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Professor Auguste Piccard of the University of Brussels will peak on "Our Free Balloon in the Stratosphere" at 8 o'clock tomorrow evening in the Rice Institute of Geographical Exploration, Theodore Lyman '97, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, emeritus, announced last night...
...aggregate salary in 1930 was $106,000. It reached a peak of $113,000 in 1931 and my present salary is $50,000 a year. Not that my personal troubles are of any interest to this Senate but because the Press is here I would like the privilege of stating that my debts are over...
...railroad plant is the finest in the world. Of the world's 780,000 mi. of railways about one-third is in the U. S. Some say that the plant is too big, that the $26,000,000,000 it cost was too much, that the peak of its usefulness has passed. The reason it is in quicksand is not that its trains are not on time but because its managers never dreamed they would have so few trains to keep on time...
William Paterson (1658-1719) was a Scotsman who early removed to the Bahamas. In the Bahamas he preached to the planters' servants, learned from pirates the lore of the Spanish Main, conceived a scheme. The southern reaches of the Isthmus of Panama were known as Darien. From a peak in Darien Balboa first saw the Pacific. Soon the Spaniards were transporting their Inca loot across the Isthmus...
Such increases, which might be made retroactive on 1932 incomes, would put taxes back to their Wartime peak. They represented an approximate upping of 50% in rates for taxpayers with incomes of $10,000 per year or less. Under this Democratic plan, surtaxes would not be changed...