Word: alfrede
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Heavy Industry. Coal, iron & steel and engineering firms (including armaments) account for 59 Tory M.P.s holding 109 directorships, giving heavy industry the heaviest representation among Conservatives in Parliament. Sir Alfred Beit, descendant of diamond-mining South African pioneers, is a director of airplane-manufacturing firms as well as of an...
Last year Professor Ernst Alfred Hauser of Massachusetts Institute of Technology discovered a new kind of wrapping material -odorless, tasteless, impervious to fire and corrosion by acids-made from bentonite clay and called "Alsifilm" (TIME, Nov. 7). Alsifilm is already being used to replace mica (isinglass) in electric motor and...
On the first tee of a Southampton, L. I. golf links, former Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith, whose form is picturesque, took a vicious swipe at the ball, missed, sprained his left foot.
The Federation's research director, Alfred T. Falk, reported that Professor Rugg's book is used by 4,200 school systems which teach an estimated 3,000,000 of the 7,000,000 U. S. high-school students. Mr. Falk found it full of "quaint economic theories." He...
Chief buyers were not individual big names but a small, mysterious cartel of French and Dutch art dealers who were suspected of acting for interests in the U. S. Highest price paid (by Editor Alfred M. Frankfurter of the U. S. Art News) was $39,400 for the famous van...