Word: actes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...temporary mainsail has been the Soil Conservation Act, discovered in the New Deal's legal lazaretto by two smart Washington correspondents, Felix Belair Jr. of the New York Times and James Russell Wiggins of the St. Paul Pioneer Press. Patched by Congress with amendments, it enabled Secretary of Agriculture Wallace to deliver the checks the Farmers wanted-a maximum $400,000,000 worth annually. Whether it has conserved $400,000,000 worth of U. S. soil annually has been beside the political point. But one thing the Soil Conservation Act has not been: an effective tool for crop control...
...Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer money. It was a $23,000 flop; When the Harris option lapsed, Abbott looked at the script, felt warmly toward it because it was about Broadway, suggested a few changes. The authors condensed three scenes into one, picked a tag for it out of the second act, Abbott sent it on to wild acclaim. In similar warmhearted fashion he undertook Brother Rat because it was a play about youngsters written by youngsters (John Monks Jr. & Fred F. Finklehoffe, V. M. I. '32). It had been returned by 31 other managements. The Abbott touch converted it into...
...friends liked rare music, a Manhattan casualty insurance man named Leo Waldman acquired, last May, Timely Recording Co., which had made and sold some left-wing "workers' songs." For his musical adviser and program annotator. Insurance Man Waldman signed up William Kozlenko, music critic and editor of One-Act Play Magazine. Timely's first offering, out last week, proved a notable find-eight brief symphonies by an almost-forgotten British composer named William Boyce...
...weeks. On 13 Mondays, Speeder Patterson repeated the text of the Sunday School lesson in Magistrate Fisher's chambers. Five days after he had delivered his 13th report to the gratified magistrate, who by that time had received many a letter praising him for his enlightened act, Speeder Patterson was again brought into court, this time charged with drunken driving...
...cyclotron of Ernest Orlando Lawrence neatly finesses such troubles by making a comparatively small voltage act on a particle repeatedly until it attains a speed corresponding to extremely high voltage, thus dispensing with a discharge tube altogether. Most conspicuous feature of the apparatus is an 85-ton electro-magnet whose poles face each other vertically across an 8-in. gap. In the gap is placed a shallow cylindrical tank, pumped out to a high vacuum so that particles inside may move freely without interference from air molecules. Ions such as deuterons (nuclei of heavy hydrogen...