Word: commonly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lord Chancellor actually sat upon a cushion stuffed with wool, to signify England's dependence upon her wool trade. Now the historic woolsack is a seat upholstered in red cloth. Great was the dismay of the Lords a month ago when the woolsack was found to contain common horsehair. No record of the change had been made. Last weekend, with the peers away for their Whitsuntide recess, the Lord Great Chamberlain, who has charge of the Houses of Parliament, ordered the woolsack ripped open, stuffed with real wool...
...floors, black the furniture, dark grey the windowless walls, shadowless the bleak illumination that comes through the skylights. Entrance to this aseptic, dustless, reflectionless hideaway is by a spiral staircase from an anteroom on the floor below. Only scientists particularly interested in fractioning life to its lowest common denominators may mount that spiral. And all must wash their hands and faces, put on gowns and hoods of black cloth-all except the master of this pure and dark domain, master of its purified and black-clad servants. He, the most famed member of the Rockefeller Institute, Dr. Alexis Carrel, distinguishes...
...month before the competition closed he teamed up with an old friend, short, nervous, 33-year-old Caleb Hornbostel, son of a celebrated Pittsburgh architect, Henry Hornbostel, designer of the Hell Gate Bridge. Physically unlike as partners in a musical comedy team, Hornbostel and Bennett nevertheless had much in common. They studied at the Beaux Arts together, returned to the U. S. at the low point of the Depression, picked up whatever work they could get in the days when 90% of U. S. architects were unemployed. Bennett designed store fronts, electric signs, posters; Hornbostel got a job with...
...October 1936, General Electric Co. instituted its Cost of Living Adjustment Plan, paid employes making $4,000 and less a bonus based on the Department of Labor's cost-of-living index. Still on this basis, G.E. last week cut its bonus from 5% to 3%, its common stock dividend from...
...that of Atlas Corp., Floyd Odium's tremendous investment trust. How Atlas is faring in Depression II showed last week in its semi-annual report.. Between Oct. 31, 1937, and April 30, 1938, Atlas' net assets dropped from $71,229,929 to $56,565,662, its common stock's asset value, from $13.36 to $9.44 per share...