Word: absorber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...physical conditions at the great French base-hospitals is restrained in comparison with the descriptions of such conditions that have been current, verbally and in writing, since the Armistice. Nevertheless, audiences who saw the first showings of War Nurse last week frequently laughed at the wrong times. Audiences can absorb visible violence only up to a definite saturation point, after which they overflow into the only available reaction-laughter. But if the violence is presented through the brain of some character, in whose place the audience can stand, there is no saturation point. As a loose-jointed account...
...best of the demoralized market for copper, Phelps-Dodge Corp. has slowly gone about a large expansion program. Recently it acquired Nicholas Copper Co., big copper refinery, long affiliated with Phelps-Dodge and Phelps-Dodge's great & good friend, Calumet & Arizona Mining Co. Last week it planned to absorb National Electric Products Corp. Since National Electric is a fabricator of metal products, Phelps-Dodge becomes a complete unit in the industry. Other complete units are Anaconda Copper Mining Co. (controlling Anaconda Wire & Cable Co.), Kennecott Copper Corp. (controlling Chase Companies...
Lago. A pyramid was simplified last week when Pan-American Petroleum & Transport, 83%-owned by Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, voted to absorb the 3% of Lago Oil & Transport Corp. which is not already in Pan-American's coffers...
...born Jew was educated for the rabbinate because secular schools would not receive him, because many a Jewish family like many a Roman Catholic family expects particular favors from God by giving a son to the church. The consequent production of rabbis became too much for established synagogs to absorb...
...higher rates, and political opponents who plead in the name of the ''consumer." Now the chorus of tariff dissent was swelled by a third and more potent group, composed of big industrialists who have saturated home markets with their production and require ever expanding foreign markets to absorb their high-speed manufactures. Seeing their business in the light of world economics (as taught by Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover), they feared their foreign customers would cease to sell over a higher tariff wall, would thereby suffer reduced income and buying power, would of necessity stop purchasing...