Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Steelmasters returned a potent answer. With U. S. Steel in the van as usual, the industry popped with announcements of an average 10% pay raise, worth some $75,000,000 per year. Biggest increase went to common laborers, such as those whose basic pay has been 47? per hour, will now be 52½?. U. S. Steel's increase was based on the cost of living as of July 15, 1936, anticipated a 10% rise in that cost. If the rise, as measured by the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, should go to 15%, Big Steel...
...which mows down whiskers without cream or lather, has found its way into 500,000 U. S. homes. Fortnight ago Colonel Schick came unbloodied through the first round of the year's biggest razor battle when the U. S. District Court in Brooklyn held that his basic patent for the Dry Shaver had been infringed by Dictograph Products...
...Basic patent in question concerned the shaving mechanism in the head of the razor. The Schick Dry Shaver tapers to a thin edge of metal perforated by tiny slots. Whiskers caught in these slots are cut off by a blade shuttling back and forth beneath them. The Lektro-Shaver differs by being roundheaded, with a single horizontal slot in which whiskers are sheared off by a blade in rocking motion. Dictograph held that these differences were essential and that the Schick patent had been anticipated, anyway, by an English inventor named Appleyard in 1913. The court, however, found the evidence...
...Ambassador Kawagoe's reputed demand that "China must recognize the special position of Japan in North China" if only Foreign Minister General Chang could win a concession to his reputed counter demand that "Japan must recognize the special position of China in North China!" Demands & Deadlock. The basic Japanese demands upon China have been known for several years. They are in substance that Japan must have the right to send Japanese troops to wherever in China the Government's troops are fighting Communists; Japan must be permitted to advise, direct and furnish China with whatever capital...
...Republican party is, therefore, presented with more than a problem of its own welfare; it is faced with obligations to the whole nation. There was and is today, more than ever, a basic issue in "personal government" but it must be approached carefully and intelligently. Blanket, hysterical charges, typical of the last six weeks of the campaign, proved indigestible to large numbers of liberals, and scare tactics aimed at stampeding voters proved to be boomerangs...