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Invention of a new electric phonograph pick-up that is from 5 to 15 times lighter than the types now in use has been made by two men working in the Cruft Laboratory here. The inventors are Frank V. Hunt, assistant professor of Physics and Communicating Engineering, and J. A. Pierce...
...when new King George VI & Queen Elizabeth undertook to visit South Wales, it was something of a test case whether they would express themselves about what they saw. As a matter of fact nothing has been "done for Wales." The Government do not claim to have brought about the pick-up in Welsh coal exports which has reduced the registered unemployed figure to 33,000, increased the employed to 32,-ooo. The price of coal still averages about $4.00 per ton, and the average South Wales employed miner still earns about $2.40 daily...
...freight agents may still act as though business were a bore, some conductors may still regard passengers as trespassers, but by & large the roads are out to make friends as they never were before. Faster freight schedules, highly-publicized high-speed trains, 8,000 air-conditioned passenger cars, freight pick-up-&-delivery service are all exciting evidences of the railroads' rebirth. Most spectacular bid for patronage was the 2? base passenger fare, inaugurated by southern and western roads where the traffic is light and forced on all roads last June by the Interstate Commerce Commission over the loud protests...
...shipments whose tariff was at least 30? per 100 lb., the Eastern roads had offered free pick-up & delivery. They also offered shippers who handled their own pick-up or delivery a 5?-per-100 lb. discount. "Rebate!" screamed truckmen. After a month's cogitation, the I. C. C. decided in favor of the railroads, except for the rebate clause. When truckmen still yowled, this permission also was suspended...
...standards were clipped to the ground as beloved Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands waddled in to read the speech from the Throne opening Parliament. As usual, the State paper was written by close-cropped and sagacious Premier Hendrikus Colijn. With Dutch industry now joining in the general world industrial pick-up springing from Rearmament. Her Majesty could and did sound an optimistic note as to Treasury finance and the general economic condition of The Netherlands last week, in sharp contrast to the bucket of cold retrenchment Her Majesty was obliged to throw last year (TIME, Oct. 1, 1935). Education...