Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rich educational duchy. Late Son James Buchanan ("Buck") Duke, who was permitted to rename it Duke University for $17,000,000 in cash, also gave Duke an eventual 32% of the income from his Duke Endowment, whose $53,000,000 portfolio holds not only tobacco but electric-power and basic-warfare-chemicals securities. Late Son Benjamin Newton...
Notwithstanding all the country's automobiles, buses, trucks, airlines, pipelines, waterways, lake and ocean shipping, the freight car remains the basic unit in U. S. transportation. And the number of freight cars loaded weekly by the U. S. railroad system remains a basic business index. When the railroads load less than 500,000 freight cars per week the country is depressed. When they load more than 1,000,000 a boom is in full flower. A few years ago when railroad finance looked its worst, statisticians used to put their feet on their desks and say that there...
...Harvard flag evident in many places during the Tercentenary containing only the three open books, with Ve-Ri-Tas, on the bright red background was a development of LaRose. According to heraldic rules, the basic color of the flag should not necessarily be Crimson, but any bright red. The official Crimson color is correct for academic gowns, in as much as it is the livery color. This new flag has not been officially adopted by the University as yet, but such action may be considered in the future, according to Mr. Greene...
...resources that would create five million jobs, stop unemployment and beautify the country as well. For arguments about costs he has shrewd answers, pointing out that Boulder Dam, by preventing a flood in 1935. saved the Imperial Valley at least $10,000,000. Holding that confidence is the basic need, he gives brief, effective accounts of projects in Sweden, Russia, England. Readers may be dazzled by Stuart Chase's bold vision of a happier future for their country but they are more likely to close Rich Land, Poor Land, with an uneasy feeling that Author Chase has pulled some...
...Steel production, surest measure of basic recovery, touched a six-year high at 72½% of rated capacity, although steel's best customer, automobile production, declined sharply while Ford plants temporarily ceased assembly operations...