Word: attempts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact, "Ladder" is nothing if not at odds with existing theatrical policy. It is the artistic contrast, the comic relief if you will, for the drama as a whole. It is the attempt par excellence to give the public not what it wants but what in the mind of an individual it ought to have. Art theatres and experimental playhouses the nation over can only envy the financial resources that makes its existence possible and contemplate the splendid uses to which they could put an equal amount of money. Theatre goers in general may applaud the quiet determination...
Scanners of the treaty thought it a slender theme for the exercise of Mr. Lee's imposing talents. The Wine Bureau will merely attempt to develop the international wine trade, "in accordance with the laws of each country," by releasing data "tending to demonstrate the beneficial effects of wine," and by sponsoring laboratory experiments "to demonstrate the hygienic qualities of wine and its influence as an agent in the fight against alcoholism (i.e. against "hard liquor...
...Regency apparently acted in the belief that Peasant Leader Juliu Maniu, who staged gigantic mass demonstrations last spring (TIME, March 26), might attempt a revolution or coup d'état capable of toppling down not only the Tycoon but the Throne. To forestall this the Regency proposed to call Peasant Maniu to the Prime Ministry. So cataclysmic were events in Rumania, last week, that any prediction seemed mere folly. The fact that international financiers will now almost certainly refuse to underwrite the vitally needed National Loan, unless the Regency recalls Vintila Bratiano to the Prime Ministry, seemed the chief...
Died. Capt. Charles B. D. Collyer, 32, and Harry Tucker, 34, famed transContinental flyers, flying the Lockheed-Vega plane, Yankee Doodle, following a crash in the Bradshaw Mountains, Arizona, in an attempt to make another West-East flight. Recently they made a record for an East-West non-stop flight-24 hours 51 minutes. With John Henry Mears, theatrical producer, Capt. Collyer established, last July, the round-the-world record (airplane & steamship) in 23 days. Last August, Tucker with Arthur Goebel piloting the same Yankee Doodle, flew from Los Angeles to Curtis Field, L. I., in 18 hours 58 minutes...
...practical. Of the world's rubber supply, Great Britain in 1922 controlled about 67%. British plantations in the East, principally in Malaya, produced in that year 300,000 tons. Dutch plantations, in Java and the East Indies, produced only 95,000 tons. Prices were low. In an attempt to boost prices, establish a monopoly, Great Britain undertook, by the Stevenson Restriction Act, to regulate exports from Malaya. The idea was to fix the price of crude rubber at between 30 and 40? a pound...