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...distant group of stars whose light, analyzed by a delicate photometric technique, indicates that they may be 25 billion years old. One probable consequence of the find: drastic revision of previous estimates that the universe is 7.4 billion years old and our solar system a mere 5 billion...
...continued slide in steel production -down to 48.7% of capacity from 49% the previous week-last week brought an overdue change in the way the industry will announce its output. The steelmakers, who have been worried that the rate of capacity figure is not only discouraging these days but does not give an accurate picture of the industry (TIME, Nov. 14), decided to drop it. Many steelmen feel that the capacity comparison has made steel production look worse than it actually is, since the most profitable rate of production is around 80% of capacity instead of 100%. Much...
...Convention 50 per cent of the delegates had previous legislative experience and, as Attorney Morris M. Goldings points out, the importance of the statistic depend on which half impresses you more. Knowledge of how a legislative body works certainly adds to the efficiency of the group, and, significantly, the leading figure at that convention was an extremely responsible and effective professional politician. Still, despite President Lowell's failure to win a seat in 1917, the gatherings draw out many capable people and provide unique opportunities for political expression in the research done by civic groups and universities...
...Previous presidents: Episcopal Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill, Methodist Bishop William C. Martin, Presbyterian Minister Eugene Carson Blake, Baptist Minister Edwin T. Dahlberg...
...paradox about unemployment is that it is likely to get worse even when employment continues to hold up well. This week the Labor Department announced that employment declined 300,000 in November to 67.2 million, considerably less than the seasonal November decline of about 700,000 in the previous two years. Despite the decline, employment was at a record high for the month. But unemployment in November rose 450,000 to 4,000,000, because of layoffs in agriculture and construction, more than canceling out the advantage of the less-than-seasonal decline in employment. Prospects are that unemployment...