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...Bureau has been making a scientific study of traffic problems, and has been successful up to 90 percent in scientifically training drivers. President Seymour of Yale said that the new course is to study methods of stemming the number of lives lost yearly in accidents, which have amounted to 40,000 lives a year...
...practically empty. Crawling with quota quickies, the British industry got a bad name at home and abroad. The mushroom growth of British films which had followed the promising early years of the ten-year plan began to wither. When the 1927 quota act expired on March 31, only three percent of the 640 British producers registered in the last ten years were still doing business. Of England's 10,000 cinema artisans, 8,000 were jobless...
...found that girls worried mainly over whether they were popular, that boys were afraid of being underweight, of not taking sufficient interest in their work, of not being able to meet their responsibilities or find financial security after graduation, of having to support their parents in old age. Two percent of the boys and 4% of the girls feared going insane. Three percent of the boys, none of the girls feared they were adopted children. About 10% in each sex were afraid of death. In general, the less intelligent freshmen worried more than their mental superiors...
...middle of a four-card straight are four out of 47; whereas, with a five-suit deck, the chances are only five out of 60. In other words, the probabilities would be .085106 in the former instance and .083333 in the latter. TIME, therefore, is nearly 18/100 of one percent in error and if the responsible party feels indebted for this information, I'll settle for one blue chip...
...amused by the U. S. silver embargo. Seriously he proclaimed to his people: "We must draw together to meet an unexpected problem." Mexico is the world's biggest silver producer and its silver mines are even more important to its domestic economy than its oil fields. Thirteen percent of the Government's revenues have come from the silver industry. Silver is a major factor in its currency and in its foreign exchange. And if Mexico tries to dump its silver directly on the world market, Secretary Morgenthau can simply pull his plug...