Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...phenomenal commotion occurred in Manhattan last week. The Amateur Astronomers Association prepared to show a five-reel motion picture graphically explaining the simpler features of the Einstein relativity theory, at the American Museum of Natural History. The museum's auditorium has 1,400 seats. Four thousand people tried to attend. In their crowding eagerness they jostled each other, bustled guards, pushed down an iron gate, shoved a heavy door off its hinges...
...absurd situation" it is, observed President Frederick Paul Keppel of the Carnegie Corporation last week, that engineers have applied their science far less to buildings than to motor cars. A car twice as good as one built a few years ago now costs half as much. The building situation, he declared, is "just about reversed." President Keppel recommended that some philanthropist create a "foundation devoted to the study of housing problems and equipped to experiment in different types of design and construction...
From Pandora's box of diseases, one, psittacosis, a stranger in the U. S., escaped last week. Two people were diagnosed dead from it, a score deathly sick-at Baltimore, Annapolis, New York, Providence, Pittsburgh, Toledo, Warren (Ohio).* All victims owned parrots newly imported from South America. The birds presumably transmitted the disease, which is peculiarly a parrot fever. The birds apparently carry the germs in their mucous membranes and in insects bred in the warmth of their underwings...
...Argentine and Germany both reported new cases and fatalities last week...
...became as cheap last week to travel across the U. S. by air as by rail. Transcontinental Air Transport cut its fare to $159.92.** Best railroad transportation costs...