Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That nothing in the universe moves faster than light is a fundamental axiom of modern physics. The velocity of light is accepted as "basic constant," is given the symbol c for mathematical notation, is counted as 2.9986X10 10 cm. sec.-1-or roughly...
...Philipov is the Public Prosecutor for the whole Soviet Union, smart Comrade Andrei Januari Yishinsky, who recently obtained a sentence condemning to death the brutal Governor of Wrangel Island (TIME, June 1). Last week the Chief Prosecutor declared in Moscow that the new Constitution will seek to correct "the basic defect of the criminal code...
Even a few weeks ago it would have been a shooting offense for any Russian to say openly that his country's Communist criminal code had basic defects. These are, declared Comrade Vishinsky, the present code's "unwieldiness, its lack of clarity and its insufficiency of attention to defense of the rights and interests of individual working people...
Simultaneously, the railroads' greatest competitor voluntarily reduced its rates to new lows. Through the National Association of Motor Bus Operators, all the major Eastern bus lines announced they would at once cut their fares below the railroad's basic 2? a mile. Old bus fares were about 2? a mile. The new schedule ranges from 1.25? to 1.75?. In addition, the busses will retain their present 10% reduction for round-trip tickets-a privilege the railroads are abandoning. Under the new fares, a salesman scurrying about the nation by bus will pay $3 instead of $3.50 to ride...
Opened last week with columns & columns of speculation was the annual season for trying to figure out how much money Henry Ford made in the previous year. Basic element in this statistical sport is the balance sheet which Ford Motor Co. has to file to do business in certain States. Starting points in the game are changes in surplus and reserves. These are also the stopping point because there is no way of telling what charges were made against these accounts or how much was paid in dividends to the two stockholders, Henry Ford and Son Edsel...