Word: establish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact is that the American Federation of Labor is not and never has been vitally concerned with the laboring masses of the U. S. It was organized in 1886 by tough shrewd, opportunist Samuel Gompers as a loose federation of unions of skilled workmen, whose realistic aim was to establish monopolies of their skills. Through the 1920's it dwindled and declined for two reasons: 1) a lack of militant, progressive leadership as its officials became absorbed in guarding their vested interests, enjoying their fat salaries, spending their energies in jurisdictional squabbles; 2) development of machines and mass production...
...agents of U. S. industry. They decide exactly how thick and strong a piece of wire must be to make a good bridge cable. They decide how thick and strong a bolt must be to hold an automobile body securely on its chassis. Last week they were trying to establish criteria for the fastness of dyed or printed fabrics against washing. As tentatively established the test is as follows...
Metallic Energy. To establish the strength of a metal engineers squeeze or pull (static tests) or hit (impact test) a sample piece until it breaks. Though one test is as good as another, none really explains why an automobile bolt occasionally cracks, an airplane strut snaps, a battleship's armor plate yields. By building a machine which hits a piece of metal with the whack of a bullet traveling 1,000 ft. per sec., H. C. Mann of Watertown (Mass.) Arsenal discovered that when a piece of metal is struck a very strong blow, its molecules release some...
...delicatessen dealer who buys an option on 500 bales of cotton ever intends to take delivery of it or that the salesgirl who acquires a future in 1,000 bushels of wheat will ultimately bake bread or make pancakes with the resultant flour?* Let the vendor of an option establish that he is pure in heart and the law takes no account of the base motives of those who may deal with...
...bold purpose of Oswald Pirow and his chief, Premier Hertzog, was understood in London to rest on their assumption that the Mother Country must establish an imperial and oceanic naval base of the first magnitude on the new Lifeline of Empire, presumably at or near Capetown, and that for the right to do so she could be made to pay a stiff price by South Africa...