Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suggested for study: 1) a specific old-age-insurance trust fund with designated trustees for all receipts (now paid into the general Treasury fund); 2) reorganizing the fund from a full reserve into a "reasonable contingency fund," with the Government paying in direct subsidies to balance the increasing benefits paid...
...Brussels and suburbs. As a practical measure, both tongues were retained on signs along the language frontiers and in areas visited by tourists. This seemed like good business even to the most zealous Fleming, but to Florimond Grammens it appeared as sabotage of the language laws. Believing in direct action, M. Grammens bought a brush and a pot of black paint, began to wander along the countryside hunting out French inscriptions which hurt his patriotic Flemish feelings. Soon numerous young Flemish students joined...
...Carnegie apparatus stores static electricity on a big electrode inside an inverted pear-shaped steel tank, 55 ft. high- only the big end of which is visible from the exterior (see cut)-discharges its high voltage in direct current. It does not speed its projectiles to such high energies as are obtainable with the "cyclotron," but the Carnegie and Westinghouse researchers claim an advantage for precision measurements in the fact that their voltage is controlled and steady...
...Uvalde, where he now lives, for getting the jump on them in starting a Garner-for-President boom in 1931. Last week they repaid Uvalde in full. Six miles southwest of Detroit, Texas, around the cabin where John Garner's mother was born in 1851, they assembled to "direct the attention of our fellow citizens to his outstanding qualifications for President of the United States...
Deals. In London, Douglas Fairbanks Sr. announced the formation of Fairbanks International, with $2,500,000 from American, English and Swiss backers. The new company plans three pictures, to be released by United Artists in 1939: The Californian, which Raoul Walsh may direct; The Tenth Woman, hero Lord Byron, in Technicolor; a remake of The Three Musketeers, also in Technicolor. In Manhattan, Twentieth Century-Fox announced that it had taken over all U. S. distribution for London's Gaumont-British, which will shortly close its U. S. offices...