Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...passed the Guffey-Vinson coal control bill; sent it to the House, which passed it last month, for action on minor amendments. Aimed to stabilize the sick coal industry (see below), the bill lacks the labor provisions which caused Supreme Court invalidation of the original Guffey Coal Act, creates a National Bituminous Coal Commission to fix minimum prices, enforce a code of fair practices. ¶ Passed the wheat crop insurance bill which provides an appropriation of $100,000,000 to establish the Federal Crop Insurance Corp. through which wheat farmers, paying premiums in grain or cash, can insure their crops...
...model language" rather than an international one, its chief function as the precise exchange of "ideas of moment," such as the explanation of Relativity to laymen. No word can be formed in Gloro unless the meaning is exact. Thus the English word solution requires three words in Gloro; solvo, act of solving; solvuro, result of solving; solvateso, state of being solved...
...Divorce underwriting from security selling so that the underwriter, freed of the urge to manufacture salable merchandise, might act as an independent middle man representing the public ("A type of dynamic salesmanship has taken root with in the securities business, in which it has no proper place...
First publisher to take advantage of the price-fixing provisions of New York State's Fair Trade Act since it was declared constitutional in a judicial flip-flop last month (TIME, March 22) was Macmillan Co., which last week fixed the price of Novelist Margaret Mitchell's gusty Gone With The Wind at $3. Reason: the book which has sold at the rate of 3¼, copies per minute since it was published last June has been a favorite object of price wars between Manhattan department stores.* Swept back to Macmillan next day like autumn leaves were...
...organization. His letters show that he was not an opportunist but a confessed "necessitarian." "I know, I know it very well, I never forget this, but that is the tragedy (I promise you 'tragedy' is not too strong a word!) of our position; that we have to act in such a way . . . after all we are not creating 'human material' for ourselves, but are taking, and cannot refuse, what is given...