Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reichstag burst into one vast German guffaw; but Dr. Hugenberg, strong in his basic potency, stood his ground like a magnat, and when silence came again read his speech to the end. He announced that overnight the Nationalist Party had reversed itself, would stand with the Cabinet...
Professor Jellinek's apparatus was bulky, awkward, dangerous. It was necessary to send fairly powerful currents through the body to guarantee success. His prediction: that with the basic problem once solved he would soon simplify his device, make it safe...
What does a company do with a patented process in some basic field of its industry? Sometimes it keeps the patent to itself. Often, however, such selfishness results in endless litigation with conflicting patents secured by other companies on similar processes. Corporations sometimes agree with certain other corporations to pool patents and collect royalties instead of paying lawyers. This procedure, however, is open to protest from companies not included in the pool...
...this decline and other bad reports expected, a basic cause is apparent: the public, eager to invest in aviation last year, was not so eager to fly as it had been before...
...basic challenge to the soundness of the Farm Board's policies was vigorously sounded by Jesse E. Pope, able Washington statistician, in the March Atlantic Monthly. He warned that the Board's practice of "setting aside economic law" and fixing an arbitrary loan price for crops will lead directly to overproduction and the piling up of unmarketable surpluses. He cited past prices to prove that the Board's exhortation to "hold wheat" makes the farmer "far more likely to lose than to gain by the delay." Said...