Word: firms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vigour of a well-played game may be experienced as one deftly dodges the cars in the Square. The odds are highly in favor of the runner. With the exception of taxis and the Coop truck any car can be brought to a dead stop by a calm but firm walk across its path. Cars never attain a dangerous speed in the Square; it is impossible...
...looms were being altered to accommodate short-staple Brazilian cotton, that disused Southern farm and gin machinery and some 800 cotton workers had already migrated to Brazil. And the Senate Finance Committee had been candidly informed by Vice President Russell E. Watson of Johnson & Johnson.(surgical dressings) that his firm was about to open a plant in Brazil to supply South American customers now serviced by its U. S. plants...
Brass Tacks. Either the Stresa Conference was going to induce Britain to stop vacillating and take a firm stand on Adolf Hitler and problems raised by his tearing up of the Treaty of Versailles (TIME, March 25) or endless temporizing must continue. As Sir John Simon was told to his face in the House of Commons by an irate M. P. just before he and the Prime Minister left England last week, "We have heard where France, Italy, Germany, Russia and Poland stand but we don't know where our own country stands...
...epileptic's skull is a firm barrier against studying his affliction. However, Drs. Hallowell Davis, 39, and Frederic Andrews Gibbs, 32, of Harvard have managed to detect intelligible electrical messages from the brains of epileptics through that barrier. Last week Drs. Davis & Gibbs went to Detroit to tell the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology how they received the epileptic messages and what they were...
Died. Henry Gottlieb Eckstein, 75, partner in the firm making Cracker Jack (candied popcorn), coiner of their slogan, "The More You Eat the More You Want"; in Ontario, Calif...