Word: adame
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...glassy Bayou Barataria last week, 70 of these homemade vessels lined up for the third annual four-mile race to determine the No. 1 piroguer of the U. S. Favorite with the 5,000 spectators who gathered under the ancient, moss draped oaks was 19-year-old Adam Billiot, winner...
While the decision itself is an example of Government control of transportation, the Commission's reason for making it harks back to Adam Smith. The report pointed out that California is an area where millions travel by private automobile; that if only 7% to 8% of the motorists could be lured to train-&-bus service by its speed and cheapness, the volume of carrier traffic would be increased by 100%. Best possible stimulus to speed and cheapness, said the Commission, would be competition precisely of the sort Santa Fe will give Southern Pacific...
What to do about this deplorable contrast between private and Governmental honesty Author Scherman makes less clear. The essential thing, he suggests, having summed up a laissez-faire program that looks suspiciously like Adam Smith in modern dress, is to "raise the standards of economic literacy among...
Forty-eight years ago March 1, Isaac Kauffman Funk and Adam Willis Wagnalls, both Lutheran pastors, brought out the Literary Digest, "a repository of contemporaneous thought and research as presented in the periodical literature of the world." Such a review, thought Partners Funk & Wagnalls, would be especially handy for theologians and educators. The Literary Digest amended its formula in 1905 to include newspaper comment on news more mundane than "thought and research." In ten years its circulation stepped...
While the National Association of Broadcasters convened last week in Washington, D. C., not a mention was made of Cinemactress Mae West or her now celebrated Adam & Eve air skit. But when Senator Burton K. Wheeler referred to ''entertainment which transgresses the standards of decency & good taste," every one of the 436 N. A. B. members present knew what he was driving at. Just in case someone might have forgotten, Variety's widely-read radio section carried a full-page, $400 advertisement, in big bold type: ''Salutations! National Association of Broadcasters . . . from the CHAMPION...