Word: establisher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed a bill to amend the Pure Food and Drug Act by requiring canned foods below a certain grade to be distinctively labeled, again rejecting theTydings amendment to prohibit insertion of deadly poi- sons in industrial alcohol. ¶ Passed a bill to establish a division of (criminal) identification & information in the Department of Justice. ¶ Passed a bill to create a Bureau of Narcotics in the Treasury Department. ¶ Adopted a joint resolution making July 5 (Saturday) a legal bank holiday in the District of Columbia for this year only. ¶ Passed a bill amending the Federal Farm Loan...
Alert Baltimoreans, anxious to establish their city's claims to industrial importance, point not to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, their old and most famed company, but focus attention on new industries lately settled in Baltimore. Outstanding among these are Glenn L. Martin (aviation) Co., now building a 1,O42-acre factory and airport near the harbor, Western Electric Co., building a $24,000,000 generating plant. Others are Standard Sanitary Manufacturing Co., whose Baltimore factory was only recently completed, Bethlehem Steel, which maintains there the world's largest tidewater steel plant, General Electric, and of aviation companies Berliner...
...establish a Presbyterian foundation to receive gifts and bequests...
Theatres. Last year Warner Brothers spent $28,000,000 buying theatres. This year, shrewd Vice President & General Manager Sam Morris told the delegates, they will buy "about 1,000 theatres." Added President Harry: "Wherever we cannot play our products, we will establish theatres of our own." Press announcements soon bore out these assertions: 1) Warner Brothers bought for $1,000,000 a plot in Dayton owned by Lee Warner James on which they will build a $2,500,000 theatre. 2) Warner Brothers were about to close a $2,500,000 deal giving them the Schine chain of 50 theatres...
...vocabulary brings added power for those who have capacity for linguistic study. In other instances, where we have been accustomed to think in terms of different divisions,--Algebra, Geometry, or Physics, Biology,--there must be more conscious effort to bring out the common elements and underlying principles and to establish continuity between courses in the same field. Again, even with a homogenous group of student in a course of concentration the instructor must not assume the attitude of the specialist. He is teaching for mastery; but he is not endeavoring to develop mathematical prodigies nor biological experts nor classical scholars...