Word: carded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...each card is indexed by name, locality, product and capacity a manufacturer who has agreed to turn out a stipulated quantity of army matériel. So far the Department has found no way to get around the cost-plus contract of World War ill-fame. But the 400 different contract forms in use then have been reduced to five, in the hope that simple phrasing and fore-analysis of actual plant costs may hold profiteering to a minimum...
...them into the Giffin home at Goshen early last year. Deprived though they were of the conveniences of an army post, the Giffins, Smiths, et al. worked, drank, played in traditional fashion. Known throughout the army for his capacity, his peculiar humor and his misadventures, Colonel Giffin was the card of a clique who thought the hot foot was good fun and snatched hats from fellow barflies. Lieut, and Mrs. Smith lived with and on the Giffins for three months, incurred the dislike of other officers and wives, finally departed. The manner of their going turned...
...surplus into a pump-priming building program. Of greater interest to most Indianians was a much smaller piece of business-reconsideration of a highly unpopular Townsend act called the Gadget Law. Every Indiana motorist was required to buy from the State for 25? a celluloid container for his registration card, which he had to stick on his windshield so that his name and address clearly showed. Aside from the probable graft involved in this 25? gadget which cost the State only 12½?, Hoosiers hated the gadgets because: they kept coming unstuck; they were fair game for forgers; they advertised...
Young Dr. Kennedy has set himself the job of exploding the claims of Duke University's Joseph Banks Rhine, inventor of the card-guessing experiments which he claims prove Extra-Sensory Perception ("ESP"), a Rhine-ism for telepathy and clairvoyance. Last week, Dr. Kennedy reported an ingenious series of counter-experiments which many of Rhine's many critics will regard as the final nail in ESP's coffin...
...Conductor Franz Schalk, Stage Director Max Reinhardt and Playwright Hugo von Hofmannsthal. decided to give Salzburg a bigger place on the musical map. Two years later the first big Salzburg Festival was given, with a gala outdoor performance of von Hofmannsthal's Jedermann (Everyman) as its principal drawing card...