Word: flows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the New Deal's legalists had hung NRA's power to regulate Industry on the constitutional peg of affecting "the flow of interstate commerce," the Nields opinion was a potent body blow to the Administration. And, as if anticipating an appeal from his decision on "emergency" grounds, Judge Nields added: "The suggestion that recurrent hard times suspend constitutional limitations or cause manufacturing operations to so affect interstate commerce as to subject them to regulation by the Congress borders on the fantastic and merits no serious consideration...
...objection?" This, correspondents pleaded, was not enough. A reigning monarch is never interviewed, but could they not have the honor of quoting Siam's former King of the North and of the South, Supreme Arbiter of the Ebb and Flow of the Tide, Brother of the Moon, Half-brother of the Sun and Possessor of the Four and Twenty Golden Umbrellas...
...entire 1928 production of automobiles is ready for the junk heap this year. And compared with annual domestic scrap consumption of 17,000,000 tons, last year's exports of 1,835,000 tons was only a piffling 10%. Because scrap is an international commodity, it tends to flow to countries whose steel industries are operating at capacity. Japan's steel mills happen to be running at 100%. Hence the focus of scrap shipments to Japan. Thus, the scrapmen...
...theremin has two knobs on the player's side and a sloping top. Projecting vertically from the right is a single metal rod while horizontally from the left is a curved bar. When the hand moves between these two bars, serving as antennae, the constants governing the flow of current causing this field are changed...
...Paris banker, also moves on to a happy consummation with Leah, daughter of an orthodox rabbi. An old woman dies. Sonia, an infant violinist, insists upon her artistic kinship with Menuhin. Scientists squabble about their laboratory problems. The Passover is celebrated. Mr. Alberg, the Communist, predicts that blood will flow in the Gobi as the brotherhood of man dawns. The bankers meditate upon getting loans from London or even from Nazi Berlin. And David, the poet, marvels at the bravery of Amanda, the New England woman, who has elected to follow her Jewish husband into exile...