National Code Drive Aims To Restore Prosperity In 1933
Washington reports outline a broad government appeal to employers and workers to sign a voluntary national code to curb profiteering, limit hours, and keep prices stable. Led by General Johnson, the plan seeks cooperation across industry from August to December and calls for consumer restraint and fair play.
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Washington
United Effort
Roosevelt
Hugh S. Johnson
Johnson
Zere
Ance
The Seven Seas Concept Across Cultures and Time
This passage traces how the phrase seven seas has varied meanings across cultures from ancient Hindus and Persians to Romans and Kipling. It notes the term’s use for different water bodies, including mythical seas, and highlights Kipling’s role in popularizing the phrase in modern times.
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Arctic
Antarctic
South Pacific
South Atlantic
Indian
Europe
Asia
Oxus
Punjab
Venice
Italy
Rudyard Kipling
Compass Plant Leaves Turn Edge Upward in Sun
The compass plant adapts to heat by turning leaves to the profile position with edges facing the sun. Morning and late afternoon sun hit the broad surfaces while midday sun is faced on the edge, reducing wilting. Leaves typically point north and south naming the plant. Rosin weeds and prickly lettuce are examples.
Talking Flower: The American Lotus of North America
The American lotus, the continent’s largest water lily, is called a talking flower due to the audible morning opening of its buds. Leaves reach about two feet across and rise above shallow water as buds pop with electrical energy at daybreak. The plant has religious significance in some Oriental countries and is used for food, fuel, and confectionery from its seeds.
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North America
Sheep Perform Daring Spring Migration Stunts
In northern Arizona the Salt River valley flocks move to cooler highland pastures each spring. Sheep perform climbs up near vertical faces and cross icy streams, with shepherds using prompt leadership and mild force to guide the flock across dangers.
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Salt River Valley
Arizona
First World Fairs and their Global Timeline
The first real World's fair occurred in London 1851 from May to October. Subsequent fairs followed in New York 1853, Paris 1855 and 1867, Vienna 1873, Philadelphia 1876, Paris 1878 and 1889, Chicago 1896, Paris 1899 1900, St Louis 1904, San Francisco 1915, Paris 1925, Philadelphia 1926.
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London
New York
Paris
Vienna
Philadelphia
Chicago
St. Louis
San Francisco
Steamship hotel rises on mountain peak above Pittsburgh
Motorists traveling the Lincoln Highway in the Allegheny mountains east of Pittsburgh encounter a boat shaped hotel and restaurant perched at 2,464 feet. From its deck visitors can view three states and seven counties.
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Allegheny Mountains
Pittsburgh
Washing the Flag in the Army and Navy
The article states it is proper to wash or clean the national flag as needed in the army and navy and notes no special method is prescribed or required.
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Army
Navy
I Love Hubby Club Promotes Husbands’ Respect
Puente California report notes the I Love My Husband club formed with La Puente Valley Journal sponsorship. The group aims to promote humane treatment of husbands, though it has no meetings or members lists. Husbands support the idea, calling for recognition beyond Mother's and Father's days.
Keenan Directs Federal-Local Crackdown on Gangsters
Attorney Joseph B. Keenan at the Department of Justice heads a coordinated federal state and municipal campaign against gangsters and racketeers. He plans a comprehensive roster of gangland personnel and will scrutinize politicians with criminal ties.
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Joseph B. Keenan
Cleveland
Department of Justice
Keenan
1932 Decrease in U S Marriages and Divorces
The 1932 census shows a sharp drop in both marriages and divorces due to unemployment and low confidence. National totals: 981 759 marriages and 160 329 divorces, with state variations from Iowa down 43.5 percent to Texas down 0.8 percent. Nevada leads in divorces per marriage.
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Washington
Cupid
Bureau of the Census
Iowa
Texas
Missouri
South Dakota
Nebraska
West Virginia
Mississippi
Arkansas
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Arizona
Utah
Nevada
Reno
New York
District of Columbia
Illinois
Wisconsin
Indiana
Lumber Mills Are Busy as Prices Mount
In the southern pine lumber industry, employment rose and prices climbed as yards shed piled lumber. After the 1931 slump, producers cut prices to move stock, meet payrolls and taxes, and shift away from the gold standard lifted unfilled orders to 46 million feet by May 27.
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New Orleans
King Cotton
Dixie
White House
Dramatic Fights to Save Wild Fowl Are Reported
A Biological Survey recounts men braving 20 to 40 below freezing to feed waterfowl in southern Montana during a February freeze. Kenneth F. Roaden and helpers delivered grain to feeding stations where thousands of mallards fed before recovery at refuge pens, while Hugh M. Worcester led volunteers at Upper Klamath Oregon to save 1200 ice-bound ducks and 100 grebes.
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Washington
Biological Survey
United States
Kenneth F. Roaden
Montana
Hugh M. Worcester
Upper Klamath Wild Life Refuge
Oregon
Woman lands 400-pound swordfish after 20 hour battle
Mrs. Oliver C. Grinnell of New York and Bay Shore with boat captain Wally Baker on the Origrin fought 20 hours to reel in a 400-pound broadtail swordfish off Fire Island at gray dawn. The catch sets a women’s Atlantic broad bill swordfish record and opens the 1933 North Atlantic big game season.
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New York
Oliver C. Grinnell
Bay Shore
Wally Baker
Fire Island
Harvard Museum Displays 59 Inch Horned Antelope
A sable antelope with horns 59 inches long, within five inches of the world record, joins the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology's rare animal collection. It was bagged by Prentiss Gray of New York in Portuguese Angola and donated to the museum.
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Cambridge
Mass
Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology
Prentiss Gray
New York
Angola
South American Indians First Mathematicians
Kansas City dispatch summarizes Gregory Mason claims that Central American peoples used anaesthetics before Columbus and possessed advanced math. It notes Toltecs built a pyramid larger than Egypt’s, Peruvians made finer tapestries, Mayans invented zero centuries before Hindus, enabling earlier multiplication and division. It also mentions Yucatan natives as skilled astronomers with a superior calendar.
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Kansas City
Central America
Gregory Mason
Yucatan
Cortez
Preservation leaders back ancient map refinement effort
The article notes Mason's latest expedition, funded by the Nelson Gallery of Kansas City and the Museum of the American Indian Heye Foundation in New York, aims to produce an improved historical map system. It suggests the new method is more accurate than Columbus's and compares favorably to modern equivalents.
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Columbus
Mason
Nelson Art Gallery of
Kansas City
Museum of the American Indian
Heye Foundation
New York
Drilling for Dry Ice Booms Texas Fields
A new drilling boom targets carbon dioxide wells producing dry ice. Derricks rise in Mora Harding and Torrance counties with several wells already in the northeast proving more valuable than oil wells.
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Texas
Midland
Tex
Mora
Harding
Torrance
Nine-Year-Old Writes and Reads Five Languages
Dalhart Texas reports Bobby Ryan aged nine can speak and read five languages. Born to American parents in Manila he had a Chinese nurse, later acquiring a Japanese nurse in Yokohama and Tokyo. He learned French and Spanish from books and conversation.
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Dalhart
Tex
Bobby Ryan
Manila
Philippine Islands
Yokohama
Tokyo
White Men Forbidden to Fish on Fort Hall Reservation
Indian council at Fort Hall reservation rules that white men may not fish there under any circumstances. The area includes choice fishing spots, causing weeping and wailing among local sportsmen who plead for reversal.
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Pocatello
Idaho
Indian Council
Fort Hall Indian Reservation
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