Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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General Johnson and Donald Randall Richberg, NRA's general counsel, were at swords' points. At a meeting of NRA's Policy Board lately the NRAdministrator had accused Mr. Richberg of playing "fast and loose" with him. Fatigued almost to the breaking point, the doughty General had bellowed: "I expect complete loyalty from every one of you. And that means you"?pointing a finger at Acting General Counsel Blackwell Smith?"and you"? pointing at Economic Adviser Leon Henderson. Messrs. Smith and Henderson politely retorted that their resignations were already on their chief's desk...
Lloyd Kirkham Garrison had stepped fast in his career. From St. Paul's School he went to Harvard, which he left at 20 to enlist in the Navy during the War. In 1919 he returned to Cambridge and in three years he had his law degree. To Manhattan he took his young wife, Ellen Jay. descendant of the first Chief Justice of the U. S., there got a job with the substantial firm of Root, Clark, Buckner & Howland. Four years later he had his own firm. In 1930, after he had helped investigate ambulance-chasing in New York, President Hoover...
...idle toy, the Westinghouse device serves industry as a delicate circuit breaker for aluminum welding, as a mercury vapor lamp for producing stroboscopic light by which to inspect revolving parts. A very fast series of flashes illuminates the part at the same point of every revolution, and thus, because of persistence of vision in the human eye, the part appears to be standing still. Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have used mercury vapor stroboscopes in connection with a super-fast camera to record the impact of a golf club with the ball, the splash of a drop of milk...
...airlines, shipbuilding, taxicabs. Entering the company when it was flat on its back in 1924, Motorman Cord lofted sales from $8,000,000 in 1925 to a peak of $37,000,000 in 1929. Early in the Depression he realized that there was still a market for a smart, fast model priced under $1,000 among people who had lost their shirts but did not want their neighbors to know it. Auburn became a Depression sensation, making 34,000 cars and $15 ger share of common stock in 1931. Next year it was less smart to be flashy, and Auburn...
Hudson, though not so conspicuously flirtatious last week, is much the most important character involved. Its plant in Detroit is one of the most efficient in the Industry. But geared to tremendous production the company has been unable to cut down overhead as fast as sales slumped. In 1929 Hudson turned out 300,000 cars, took in $200,000,000. Last year it sold 45,000 cars, took in $23,000,000. Meantime Hudson's working capital was shriveled...