Word: america
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Chairman Owen D. Young of Radio Corp. of America appeared as a witness before the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee. In one word he approved a bill by Senator Couzens to create a Federal Communications Commission comparable to the Interstate Commerce Commission; in many words he pleaded for two great monopolies in the communications field...
Missionaries. Christmas spirit was, of course, zealously upheld in many a foreign land by 12,283 U. S. missionaries?8,363 in Asia, 2,160 in Latin America, 1,689 m Africa, 71 in Australia and Oceanica...
...days instead of 30, snatched the extra day from February. By 1582 the inexact Calendar had slipped away ten days from its relation to the seasons. The new Gregorian Calendar was created that year, lopping off the ten extra days. In 1752 Great Britain and its colonies (including America) adopted it, but by that time the accumulated error was eleven days. Turkey adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1917, Russia in 1918, Rumania and Serbia in 1919, Greece...
...Other U. S. institutes and associations are many, include: American Macaroni Manufacturers' Association, American Shovel Institute, Ash Handle Association. Association of Limb Manufacturers of America, Better Bedding Alliance of America, Canadian Newsprint Association (see p. 19), Casket Manufacturers' Association of America, Copper Institute, Corset and Brassiere Association of America...
Professor Kirsopp Lake and Associate Professor R. P. Blake, '09. Director of the Harvard University Library, are leading the archaeological expedition which is going out from Harvard this week to continue researches in the Sinai peninsula. Professor R. F. Butin of the Catholic University of America will be a member of the expedition, which is being carried out under the joint auspices of the two Universities...