Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were somewhat amazed that you were able to pack so much scientific material in such a little space [account of Continental Oil Co.'s world's deepest well, TIME, July...
...Georges Lemaitre, proponent of the "Exploding Universe." Abbe Lemaitre believes the cosmic rays are fragments of a universal explosion which took place bil lions of years ago, and therefore that the rays should fill all space more or less uniformly. This is only one of several hypotheses advanced to account for the rays' origin. Dr. Millikan used to believe they were liberated in interstellar space during the coalescence of light elements into heavier ones. Dr. Fritz Zwicky of Caltech believes that cosmic rays may be the products of individual stellar explosions which occur all the time in some region...
...deficit of about $2,200,000. Part of that deficit was paid by the United Hospital Fund. Part of it just piled up like an Ally's War debt. And it would have been millions greater if the institutions had been run on a business basis, taking into account depreciation ($11,835,000), tax exemptions and free water ($10,560,000), interest charges on the investment...
...from 30 to 75 minutes of air time on its Red and Blue networks, had mustered 146 stations from Boston to Honolulu, had a beam open for Portuguese short waving to Brazil, another for Spanish reporting to other South and Central American listeners, a third to carry the German account to Challenger Schmeling's homeland. It was to be the biggest sport broadcast ever...
...Francisco and Los Angeles together account for two percent of the U. S. book business. At the Emporium in San Francisco two children's books, Heidi Grows Up and Ferdinand, outsold popular novels; at Bullock's in Los Angeles The Yearling and The Citadel were crowded hard by Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Emily Post's Etiquette...