Word: exaction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which adopted a constitution, made Mexico City its headquarters, provided that its president must reside there and then elected Vicente Lombardo Toledano first president. In flattering compliment to President Cárdenas, who last week won for Mexican Federal employes the right to strike, the constitution borrowed almost the exact words of a recent Cárdenas radioration as its charter: that "the principal task of the Latin American working class consists in winning full economic and political autonomy for Latin American nations. . . . Fascism is opposed to the objectives of the proletariat and must be combated in all its forms...
...theory lies in the fact that the fissures all over the earth (such as occur in mountain building) constantly repeat their openings and closings. Last advice of Astronomer Brown was the suggestion that sensitive instruments be set up near large fissures to measure the rate of their changes. Exact measurements might then lead to some predictions...
...past month (Lufthansa's four-motored Focke-Wulf "Condor" Brandenburg, from Berlin to New York City and return), newspapers were obliged to run banner headlines about SECRECY. Even this ruse failed to excite thorough readers. Day before, they had seen an Associated Press dispatch announcing the exact hour of departure, predicting the time of arrival within three hours...
Lensman Valentine's invention has not been patented and he did not disclose exact technical details. But film executives who viewed his work pronounced it good. Heart of the device is a prism composed of two paper-thin sheets of glass fitted together at a 45° angle. This is inserted behind the camera's lens, works something like the binocular vision of human eyes. The illusion of roundness goes onto the film so that no special projector equipment is necessary and spectators do not have to wear stereoscopic glasses...
...rayon industry, FTC at the request of certain members of the silk business drew up a proposed set of rules which will not go into effect until after a public hearing August 2. Points which upset the industry last week were that the label on silk state the exact proportion of metallic weighting and finishing materials in the goods, if any, and that the word "silk" may not be used in a firm's name unless a "substantial part" of its business is devoted to silk...