Word: americanize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another Methodist attempt to meddle with Medicine brought another tart rebuke last week. The Voice of the Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church had blasted at the "lying, murderous campaign of the American tobacco trust" to get women to smoke. The Voice had cried: "Sixty percent of all babies born of cigaret-sucking mothers die before they reach the age of two." Investigation showed that the Voice got its research from hearsay and a man whose name resembled that of a doctor whom the American Medical Association calls a quack...
...that a year or two ago U. S. Motors would have unanimously approved putting automobiles on the free list. But now, said he, foreign makers have adopted U. S. production methods, employ U. S. engineers. Furthermore: "We have an increasing number of foreign plants, owned or controlled jointly by American manufacturers and foreign interests, the ultimate effects of which no one can forecast." Mr. Macauley felt, therefore, that a partial reduction of from 25% to 10% should be tried before any free list measure was considered. But buses, heavy duty trucks, electric motor trucks should retain their 25% protection because...
...business. Fruit from California and Florida, motor cars from Detroit, coal from Pennsylvania, textiles from New England, clothing from New York, cotton from the South, wheat from the West?all commodities move, and move largely by rail. High car-loadings show brisk business, efficient carriers. Pleased was the American Railway Association last week to announce that car-loadings for the first 26 weeks of 1929 made an all-time record for loadings for the first half of any year. Loadings for the week ended June 29 were also highest figures ever recorded for any week in the first six months...
When a U. S. woman buys silk stockings, she frequently purchases some tin along with the silk. How much tin she is buying she cannot know, for there is no standard way of testing silk. But for her protection and the protection of the manufacturer of her stockings, the American Standard Association is considering tin-silk test standardization...
Impartial and expert is the Association. Last week it completed a reorganization which shifted its control from engineering to industrial leaders. Organized as the American Standard Engineering Standards Committee in 1917 by the American Societies of Civil Engineers, of Mechanical Engineers, American Institutes of Electrical Engineers, of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers and American Society for Testing Materials, the Committee in 1919 expanded its membership to include U. S. Departments of War, Navy and Commerce. More members were added until in 1928 there were 37 member bodies. In March the American Home Economics Society was admitted to membership...