Nature as planner defeats the urge to curb production
The piece argues that natural laws govern supply and demand better than deliberate planning. It warns that reducing acreage and production misreads reality, given population growth, weather fluctuations, and pests. Nature enforces limits through droughts, pests, and climate, while human attempts to bypass these laws trap society in a self-made web.
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Economista
Nature
United States
Drouth
Hall
Newfoundland May Lose Self Governing Status
A London despatch reports Newfoundland could temporarily lose self governing colony status if Lord Amalrie commission findings on the island financial crisis are approved. Westinghouse tests show electric eye faster and more accurate than an operator. Australia press urges mail and passenger air service with England. German electric fans touted with rubber blades. Glasgow police round up counterfeiters.
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London
New York Times
Glasgow
Scotland
Canada’s Taxable Real Estate Totals By Province 1932
Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports show total taxable real estate in Canada at 5.2723 billion dollars with 1.5 billion exempt. Ontario and Quebec lead exemptions. The 1932 total taxable valuations reach 8.7521 billion, with Ontario 3.1832 billion and Quebec 2.2235 billion. Taxable real property amounts to 8.2223 billion with Ontario and Quebec again topping.
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Canada
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Dominion
Quebec
Ontario
Manitoba
British Columbia
Nova Scotia
Prince Edward
Alberta
New Brunswick
Prince Edward Island
Saskatchewan
Niagara River swims to safety near famous falls
William Kondrat, without knowledge of danger, attempted to swim from the American side to the Canadian shore of the Niagara River below the falls. He was carried into the whirlpool and forced to swim out of the rapids to safety in a feat never before accomplished.
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William Kondrat
Niagara River
Unique frozen aquarium attracts Seattle visitors
A spontaneous exhibit in Seattle features a unique frozen aquarium with fish from many waters. Harry E. Larson explains it grew from a fisherman’s fish to a world famous plant drawing up to 1,500 visitors daily who brave ten degrees below freezing to view ice encased deep sea rarities.
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Seattle
Harry E. Larson
Retirement set for Navy chief Walter Hose in Canada
The Ottawa Journal notes Commander Walter Hose chief of the naval staff will retire and be succeeded by Commander Percy Walker Nelles who is currently in England. Hose has served 22 years in the Royal Canadian Navy, including roles as Halifax dockyard superintendent and patrol boat captain. He was made a commodore in 1932 and was mentioned in despatches during the Great War.
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Hua
Ottawa Journal
Walter Hose
Department of Naval Defence
Percy Walker Nelles
England
Royal Canadian Navy
Hose
Halifax
Royal Navy
Rewarded For Kindness Leads To Unexpected Inheritance
An elderly Swansea woman who lost her money while traveling met a Cardiff Station girl, lent 108. The sum was returned by post soon after. A few days ago Miss Jean Dawes, now a Pontypridd hairdresser assistant living in Senghenydd, received a solicitor letter revealing the old lady died leaving her 3000 pounds.
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Swansea
Cardiff
Jean Dawes
Pontypridd
Senghenydd
Traditions Shattered as School Plans Finishing Course
A famous public school plans a finishing course to bridge pupils from school to industry, with Rugby head P H B Lyon announcing curricular changes for non university tracks. Sir Ernest Simon envisions slum disappearance via affordable synthetic housing. Dneiper becomes navigable after artificial flooding allows a steamer to pass Falls. Descriptions note gold usage in American dental fillings would rival historic shipwreck gold. Colombia aims to organize a national merchant marine venture.
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P. H. B. Lyon
Dneiper Falls
Russia
Dneiper
Proves Value Of Advertising Reading Ads Creates Desire To Shop
A survey in St Louis Montana by local vacation school advertising students finds 1380 of 1545 interviewees read newspaper ads before planning a shopping trip. Another 1322 of those surveyed say newspaper advertising often created a desire to shop when no plans existed.
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St. Louis
Montana
Safer Flying Device Demonstrated At Roosevelt Field
A parachute system that ejects passengers from a disabled cabin and lowers them safely to the ground was demonstrated before airline officials and aviators at Roosevelt Field New York. Eight dummies were dropped from 150 feet and two parachute jumpers from 1500 feet, proving the device's viability under controlled testing conditions.
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Roosevelt Field
New York
Teath
London police to be trained as firemen for rescues
London police will receive fireman training to handle rescues from burning buildings. Officers already skilled in first aid driving swimming and life saving will be prepared to face fire incidents.
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London
Professor Attacks Modern Education At Harrogate Session
Dr William Oliver of Edinburgh University condemned modern education for clogging minds with dead matter and fostering clerical bias and class consciousness. He warned that educators became divorced from industry and that liberal graduates show ignorance and arrogance while avoiding factory work.
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William Oliver
School of Organization and Industry
Edinburgh University
Scotland
Harrowgate
England
Oliver
Pulp Production in Canada 1930 Fact Sheet
Dominion Bureau of Statistics data shows Canada produced 2,283,130 tons of ground wood pulp using 2,241,296 cords of pulpwood and 1,076,804 tons of chemical fibre from 2,168,986 cords. Average yields were 2037 pounds per cord for groundwood and 993 pounds per cord for chemical fibre.
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Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Forest Service
Department of the Interior
Sandy Beach Search Aboard Nascopic Arctic Patrol
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police prepare a two year Arctic patrol with the vessel Nascopic bearing mounts for duty in Canada’s polar regions. The mission includes seeking sandy beaches beneath the ice as explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson urges General MacBrien to involve the RCMP in these coastal prospects.
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R.C.M.P
Polar
Canada
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
T. H. MacBrien
R.C
Kansas City Pawnbroker Advances Cash on Airplane Security
Ben Hurst of Kansas City Montana advertises the largest pawn shop west of the Mississippi and boasts never refusing a loan on tangible value. Williard Herman of Oregon Missouri sought 250 with an aeroplane as security. Hurst rented a hangar and sent word for Herman to collect the loan by mail.
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Kansas City
Ben Hurst
Montana
Mississippi
Nat
Williard Herman
Oregon
Hurst
Herman
Record shows zero Canadian wheat exports via US ports
Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports no Canadian wheat cleared through United States ports in the week ended July 14. In the same week of 1932, 405000 bushels were shipped via US ports. Bright red handbags are vogue in Germany.
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Dominion Bureau of Statistics
United States
Vogue Uw
Germany
Inch length revised to 25.4 millimetres in US England agreement
The inch has been shortened by two millionths of its former length to align US and English measurement bases. The updated definition is 25.4 millimetres, reducing mile differences by about one eighth inch. Gauze blocks now precise to within one millionth of an inch, with US Bureau of Standards and England's National Physical Laboratory certifying gauges to the new standard.
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United States
England
United States Bureau of Standards
National Physical Laboratory of England
Dymaxlon car tests speed at Bridgeport with Fuller driving
The three wheeled car designed on streamlining principles of fast boats ran at Seaside Park achieving 70 miles per hour in a one third mile test while Buckminster Fuller, the inventor and designer, presided.
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Bridgeport
Connecticut
Buckmoinster Fuller
Seaside Park
Will You Let Me Keep My Office Job
A dialogue between two lovers unfolds with a proposal and a playful pact about the woman keeping her employment. The man affirms his support, emphasizing tight mutual expectations and commitment. The exchange blends romance with practical concern over work.
Tongue Exam Hints at a Patient’s Worth
A physician’s first action is to examine the tongue to assess a patient’s value, as the habit hints at medical of social judgment and character.
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Association of Technical Institutions
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America
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