Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Salient fact about Germany then and now remains that she has few natural resources except her people. In important raw materials Germany has an exportable surplus of only two things: coal and chemicals. With a few industries (such as the electrical and dyestuff industries) the Germans have worked wonders. But ever since Germany ceased after 1871 to be a collection of medieval agrarian principalities she has had to import wool, cotton, rubber, metals, wood, oil and foodstuffs from beyond her territory...
...purpose our first President had in mind. ... I am sure the heads of the Government departments will not fail to make good use of it ... to correct the kind of misinformation that is sometimes given currency for one reason or another. In some communities it is the unhappy fact that only through the radio is it possible to overtake loudly proclaimed untruths or greatly exaggerated half-truths...
Several years ago, they had a hunch that the immature hearts and blood vessels of epileptics did not supply enough oxygen to their brains. Hence the convulsions. This theory fitted in with the general fact that many epileptics do not have any brain abnormalities which might be considered responsible for the seizures. To test their hunch, the doctors placed 14 epileptic children under the care of a coach, who helped them develop "athlete's heart" through a strenuous program of rowing, running, basketball, football. At the same time the patients were placed on the traditional low-water diet...
...reported taking fill-in business from all comers to be rolled in one lot when enough of it accumulates. Ponderous U. S. Steel Corp. first disregarded the buzzing and biting of the mosquitoes, denied it was doing anything at all, finally "reaffirmed" present prices for the third quarter, in fact cutting them $3 a ton by extending previous "quantity deductions" to all small lots sold. This left the giant of the industry $8 a ton above its lowest competitor, but it asserted its intention of meeting each cut till its small bedevilers reformed or bled to death. Price cuts that...
...Post-Impressionism in 1913 the "modern art" controversy remained, to the public at large, barbaric and obscure. During those years two rich and modest women, Nelson Rockefeller's mother and her friend, the late Lillie Plummer Bliss, quietly bought whatever modern works they enjoyed, quietly deplored the fact that the art of living men received little or no institutional support in Manhattan. In the late spring of 1929 they and one or two other liberal ladies laid plans for a new museum. To head their organizing committee they chose A. Conger Goodyear, a solid, sensitive industrialist (lumber) with practical...