Word: belts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When I see statements that the Germans during 1940 will have as many as 400 U-boats in commission and that they are producing these vessels by a chain-belt system, I wonder if they are producing the U-boat captains and crews by a similar method. If so, it seems likely that our rate of destruction might well undergo a similar expansion...
...Carnegie Institution's station on Long Island) and the late Dr. Edward Murray East (at the Connecticut Agricultural Experimental Station) started their experiments with corn hybridization. The Department of Agriculture, foreseeing laborious years of further experiment ahead, was slow to follow their lead. Thoroughgoing research programs at corn-belt stations did not get under way until 1920, and until 1933 practically no hybrid corn was grown commercially. Not until last year were seed supplies plentiful enough for growers to take their choice of several tested hybrids, instead of having to buy simply "hybrid corn...
...overdue rate row is being kicked up by husky moose-hunting Luther Mason Walter, operating trustee of Chicago Great Western, one of the chronically anemic roads in the great midwestern bankruptcy belt. Mr. Walter's complaint: the Midwestern roads are not getting their fair share of charges on transcontinental hauls, get a lean, unprofitable cut while the roads at the eastern and western ends take the big slices...
...jarred the sensibilities of several nations. The Government, he said, would shortly authorize the Royal Navy to seize not only contraband goods suspected of going into Germany, but all "exports of German origin or ownership." Germany, lying on her economic back half-throttled, had started kicking below the belt. "As a measure of justified reprisal" for "this fresh outrage," Germany should be throttled entirely. She should be cut off from her export markets, from which she derives foreign exchange to buy war sinews...
...their own practice and self-criticism. Another course, devoted to acting, might correlate all the odds and ends of drama now spread over the English Department. A third, given by the Fine Arts Department, would concentrate on design and technique for actual production. With such progress under its belt, Harvard could atone for the past, not by waiting for a financial "angel" but by announcing that the foundation for a complete School of Dramatic Arts was at last ready. Ignored three times, alumni might yet rejoice that Harvard had cast off prejudice and would contribute to the establishment...