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Payment of soldiers bonus partly to blame for current business recession. Washington, D.C., Jan. 4. Appearing before the Special Senate Committee on unemployment, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Eccles today declared that payment of the soldiers bonus in 1936 helped create price distortion that pushed recovery out of balance and led toward the current business recession, 1/4/38

Payment of soldiers bonus partly to blame for current business recessi...

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Testing airplanes lenses used in map making. Washington, D.C., May 6. Dr. F.E. Washer of the U.S. Bureau of Standards testing the lens for the airplane cameras that are used by the Army and Navy. There are lights in the rear of the columnmeters and exposures are made on the photographic plate in front of the doctor. The lens are tested for distortion, focal length, and definition. This work must be very exacting as a small error would make an error of many miles on the maps made by the aerial cameras, 5/6/1937

Testing airplanes lenses used in map making. Washington, D.C., May 6. ...

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John Frey denounces CIO charges that AF of L amendments drafted in collusion with business. Washington, D.C., May 15. John P. Frey, President of the AF of L Metal Trades Department, denounced charges by John L. Lewis that AF of L amendments were drafted after consultation with representatives of big business. The charges, he asserted, are 'studies distortion of the facts.' He told the Senate Education and Labor Committee that the amendments were not influenced by any outside sources

John Frey denounces CIO charges that AF of L amendments drafted in col...

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Government discovers method to preserve film. (2) Expansion and contraction, like paper and other sheet materials made from cellulose, films expand as they take up moisture and contract as they lose it, and the extent of the change is different in the two directions of them. This may cause some distortion of the image, and therefore is of particular importance where the image must be true to scale, such as in aerial photography. C.O. Pope is shown with a type of expansiveity tester used and which was designed by the Bureau of Standards. Long strips of film are suspended under constant tension in the [cabinet?] in which the humidity is varied by means of [...] solutions. The change in length is indicated [...continuously?] on a scale by means of an optical-level arrangement, 7/8/38

Government discovers method to preserve film. (2) Expansion and contra...

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