Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Berlin the neutrality policy of the Realmleader was said by his aides to be approximately that of President Roosevelt and absolutely distinct from the League of Nations. Since she is rearming herself as rapidly as possible, Germany has no arms to sell to others; but coal, pig iron, steel, basic war materials of which she has a surplus, she will continue to seil to whoever will buy. Last week Adolf Hitler let it be known that he will stand no nonsense from Capitalists attempting to make speculative purchases in Germany of material the Fatherland needs for its own war machine...
...years ago. Europe assumes that such was their achievement, ignoring Thomas Alva Edison. Invincibly bourgeois and perfectly satisfied with their large business in making still films and plates, the Brothers Lumière left the invention of the cinema to stew for years in a shambles of litigation. The basic invention, they considered, was that of George Eastman who in 1889 produced sheets of celluloid film with which motion pictures could be made and were bound to be made by someone as soon as the necessary machine was tinkered into shape. The idea was patented as early...
...Harry George Armstrong. 36, director of the Army Air Corps' Physiological Research Laboratory at Dayton. A married man with two children, he enjoys flying but is not a pilot. Long aware of the importance of parachuting, he made his jump as a precise laboratory experiment to uncover the basic facts of the matter. Last fortnight he published his findings, well substantiated by witnesses and figures, in the American Medical Association Journal. Excerpts...
...Basic cause of Virginia-Carolina dissension is the corporation's stock setup. There are three classes of stock-first, a Prior Preference stock, which pays a 7% cumulative dividend; then a Participating Preferred, which pays a 6% cumulative dividend; and finally a common stock, which has never paid any dividends since the present company was organized in 1926. The company is $16.50 per share in arrears on the Prior Preference, $43 per share behind on the Participating...
...room rent dollar was commuted by determining what you centage of the total receipts from YORD was spent for each item. This you centage equals the number of connection spend from each dollar a students pays. Although subject to obvious inaccuracies, the division of the dollar on this basic in a fairly reliable indicator an to where the money goes...