Word: spaces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lopsided Magnet. Since Earth is a vast magnet with North and South magnetic poles, it has a magnetic field which extends thousands of miles out into space. If cosmic rays are largely charged particles, as most physicists believe, their intensity should be affected by terrestrial magnetism. It has been discovered that, as the field is strongest near the poles and weakest at the Equator, so is the cosmic ray bombardment strong or weak with changing latitude. Later a longitude differential was found. Last week, with intensity figures for electroscopes carried on nine ships sailing the seven seas. Robert Andrews Millikan...
Bane of all honest city editors and newshawks are "Business Office Musts." These are free stories about advertisers, which in many a paper take up so much space that legitimate news has to be whittled down or omitted entirely...
Many publishers, although they realize that this unpaid advertising is nothing less than a racket which cheapens the value of their paid advertising columns, have been afraid to interfere lest potent space-buyers be offended...
Jumbo (words & music by Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur, Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart; Billy Rose, producer). Having announced the opening of his show every week since Labor Day, having postponed it ten consecutive times until at last he bought space in the newspapers to plead: "I'll be a dirty name if I'll open Jumbo until it's ready," last week minuscule Billy Rose finally presented in Manhattan's Hippodrome the spectacle that was supposed to be BIGGER THAN A SHOW, BETTER THAN A CIRCUS. First-nighters were provided with a scale by which to judge...
...Operator O'Hara boomed over his park loudspeakers that afternoon an offer of $250 for Sox's return, sent 100 ushers, watchmen, clerks, grooms out to scour the neighborhood. When they returned emptyhanded, Operator O'Hara upped his reward to $1,000 alive. He bought space in Providence, Boston and other New England newspapers to announce his loss & offer. He hired time on Providence radio stations. He had poles, trees, fences plastered with posters bearing Sox's picture and "$1,000 REWARD." Soon the entire countryside crawled with children, policemen and other hopefuls poking in bushes...