Word: adjustable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Look at that!" cheerily exclaimed President Roosevelt as he joined the White House birthday party of Granddaughter Anna Eleanor ("Sistie") Dall and beheld her huge six-candled cake. He started the party of youngsters off by helping them pull their colored snappers, adjust their paper caps. C. At a press conference last week President Roosevelt outlined his plans for establishing an "extraordinary budget" to cover emergency expenditures for relief, public works, mortgage refinancing. By this method of bookkeeping which many a critic condemns as concealing the true state of Federal finances, the President would "constructively"' balance the regular Budget...
Singing at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House leaves many a tenor with a swollen head but Tenor Tito Schipa who lately finished his first season there was left with swollen tonsils. He sped to Los Angeles where last week Surgeon Edward Russell Kellogg proceeded to remove them, to adjust, as he said. Tenor Schipa's "epiglottal space." Six weeks will pass before the operation's results will be known but then Dr. Kellogg hopes that Schipa will find the range of his voice higher by two or four notes...
...diapers from $1.20 a dozen to 83?. But compared to the last few semi-annual nose-dives that forced Montgomery Ward to take a $5.300,000 inventory loss in 1931 the slashes were moderate. Wall Street interpreted this price firming favorably, for Montgomery Ward, able to adjust retail levels only twice a year, must forecast accurately...
...Clearly this opens the way to unlimited trade haggling between states. It was said in Berlin last week that France urged and won the new interpretation so as to be free to bicker & dicker, after March 4, with President Roosevelt who has indicated that he favors bargaining methods to adjust the world's tariff problems...
...Draft Ventilation"-panels opening outward like a French window-was done independently by the Fisher Body division. GM's new "starterator"-self starter hitched to accelerator-was brought out by Malcolm Stevenson, oldtime polo player, and John Good. Another GM development for 1933 is a regulator to adjust the spark to the octane-content of gasoline, to ensure complete combustion, avert "knocking." For 1933 there is one development which may assume the importance of 1932's Free-Wheeling: Bendix and Studebaker say, "This is the Power Brake Year...