Word: expertments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...climax of discord, the Rt. Hon. Edward Hilton long famed as the fiscal expert of the Liberal party, announced that he had decided to follow Sir Alfred Mond's lead (TIME, Feb 8) and resigned from the party.* On the last day of the meeting the Laborite Daily Herald exulted: "Within the last few days the disappearance from the political arena of the corpse of Liberalism has been brought much nearer. Lloyd George stands alone, without friends and without support...
Mark Requa of San Francisco predicted an oil famine in 1934 if new discoveries and improved methods do not come in. Walter C. Teagle of Standard Oil of New Jersey deprecated any great danger, pointed to new saving methods. Henry L. Doherty, gas expert, maintained oil was being burned wastefully, produced wastefully. His researches show that oil pools should be operated as units to maintain below ground the pressure of gasses dissolved in petroleum, making it more fluid. Much oil is now lost on subterranean sands whence it cannot be extracted because of its viscosity when released from gas pressure...
Martin L. Davey, tree expert and Congressman from Ohio, made answer to the Ohio Federation of Labor, which had sent him resolutions advocating better pensions, more half-holidays, overtime pay, etc., for Federal employes. He said...
...will never be met by our scheme and we shall have to accept after all the Government scheme of a sales tax or tax on payments" (TIME, Feb. 8 et ante). Since the Chamber gave every sign of continuing to "go on" indefinitely, M. Lamoureux and the Socialist fiscal expert, M. Auriol finally walked out of the Chamber hurling shrill rebukes right and left...
...whole duty of airplanes is now made manifest, in 52 folio pages, compiled, examined and approved by expert engineers, designers and men of the air. Last week H. M. Crane, General Motors technician and chairman of a joint committee of the U. S. Bureau of Standards and the Society of Automotive Engineers, announced completion of the "aircraft safety code." A five-year labor, the code includes regulations for the design, manufacture, testing and operation of all types of craft, qualifications for pilots, traffic rules...