Editorial on quail season limits and rail progress in Florida
Babson Park editor advocates shortening quail season to protect wildlife and prevent fires, warns hunting decline will follow if unrestrained. Notes Seaboard’s streamlined coach to Florida fast, comfortable, cheaper, with Tampa service biweekly. Includes poem excerpt “Testing Time” by Clara H Kinley, praising faith and endurance amid loss.
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Babson Park
Florida
Florida Wild Life Federation
Seaboard
New York
Tampa
East
Miami
West Lake Wales
Clara H. Kinley
Vindicator and Republican
The Costly Path From Invention To Market
A discussion on how long it takes to commercialize new ideas highlights Philo Farnsworth’s early television work, costs sunk, and the need for funding. It notes invisible glass research by GE and the balance between valuable invention and practical market value, with examples like long lasting radio tubes.
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Katharine Blodgett
General Electric Laboratories
Schenectady
Research Drives Industry Growth and Jobs
Langbourne M. Williams Jr of Freeport Sulphur notes more than 1,700 industrial research labs with 23,000 technicians, costing 250 million dollars annually. Companies recruit from technical schools, linking universities to industry. MIT announces a finding that metal at 466 degrees below zero becomes a perfect conductor of electricity, signaling ongoing scientific breakthroughs.
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Langbourne M. Williams, Jr
Freeport Sulphur Company
Donald B. Mason
Mr. Williams
America
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Radio tubes and the demand for modern sets
The piece notes the high cost and longevity of tubes, arguing that running a radio 24 hours a day for over six years would wear one out. It suggests most users would sooner invest in an eight new, more modern receiving set long before the tube wears out.
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Assen Jordanoff
Five Minute Biographies of Lenin the Patron Saint of Workers
A compressed portrait describes Lenin as a revered figure worshiped by millions and memorialized in cities and factories. It recounts his humble appearance, exile with his wife, education, linguistic skill, radical shift after famine, decades of flight, revolutionary writings, rise to dictator in 1917, and staunch minimal personal luxury while suffering strokes and paralysis. His image hangs in many homes and workplaces.
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Lenin
Russia
Germany
Austria
France
Poland
Switzerland
England
London
Karl Marx
Northwestern Bell reports 1938 earnings fail to satisfy
Northwestern Bell Telephone Co and subsidiaries owned 821000 telephones across Iowa Minnesota Nebraska South Dakota North Dakota at year end 1938, a gain of 20459 lines about 25. Calls averaged 5 million daily with 100000 long distance. Taxes for 1938 were 5228965 up 30 percent from 1936 and 57 percent from 1935. Earnings remained unsatisfactory despite improved service reliability.
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Northwestern Bell
Northwestern Bell Telephone Company
Iowa
Minnesota
Nebraska
South Dakota
North Dakota
A. A. Lowman
Northwestern Bell Company
Roosevelt’s Bold Aid Motive Sparks Debate on Cost
The speaker contrasts Roosevelt’s approach with common budgeting, arguing he spends freely to aid the popular vote base. Critics question whether the funds come from private means or public money, implying political advantage drives generosity. The passage raises concerns about accountability and the true source of funds behind such aid.
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George A. Nichols
Estherville
Town
G. A. Nichols
V.R
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Philadelphia
West
Science
Frank Parker Tockbridge
Mr. Roosevelt
DAFEY
Senate
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