Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first learned of the "betrayal," dashed across the continent, and wiped up the office floor with his partner's pint-sized frame. Present day Scotts and Pittocks are noticeably cool toward each other. Most embittered has been big, bald, son Leslie M. Scott, President of Portland's chamber of commerce who took part in conferences leading up to last week's changes as representative of the 230 Oregonian shares that Harvey Scott left to his four children. Leslie Scott has an ambition to fill his father's shoes. And with the time fast approaching when...
...Wilson invented the cloud chamber. This device makes visible the fantastically rapid paths, straight, curved, or broken, of electrons and other subatomic particles. The cloud chamber contains water vapor or other fluid vapor which, suddenly expanded by a piston, condenses along the particle paths in fog droplets that show up in photographs as white streaks...
Self-styled a "national forum for problems of distribution," the Boston conference generally produces more concrete discussions than do broader conclaves like the International Management Congress. As a basis for this year's chief topic, the U. S. Chamber of Commerce submitted a history of the U. S. census of distribution of commodities by wholesale and retail merchants. Need for such a statistical breakdown was first felt in 1922. By 1925 a committee headed by Owen D. Young was at work on the idea. First nationwide census was made by the Bureau of the Census for the year...
Self-styled a "forum for interchanging world experience in all phases of management," last week's convention was held in Washington's capacious Chamber of Commerce building, drew a full complement of U. S. tycoons. But what they had to say along the standard themes of U. S. management problems lost the spotlight to the embarrassed remarks of the European representatives. Sample: Lord Leverhulme (soap) of England, retiring president: "The more freedom and smoothness there is in the give & take of goods and services between the countries of the world, the more encouragement there will...
...Europe, however, a report from the International Chamber of Commerce showed, only Ireland has carried through a similar census, in 1933. Elsewhere statis tics are extremely spotty. Britain has no complete tabulation of its retail establish ments, France of its consumption of tex tiles, Germany of its volume of advertising...