Word: flows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next October Erpi Picture Consultants, Inc. (subsidiary of American Telephone & Telegraph Co.) will offer for sale a set of 20 one-reel sound pictures produced in the Physical Sciences Department at Chicago. The pictures will show detailed scientific experiments, synchronized with lectures by Chicago professors. Subjects include: the flow of protoplasm in plant & animal life, the excavations of Nineveh and Megiddo, the heartbeat of a dog. Price for the set will be $1,400 including projector. The university will receive no profit beyond publicity. Not intended to take the place of professors or to reduce teaching time, the films...
...heard the shot I knew what had happened.'' He climbed on to the stage and was helped into the box the same way Booth had come down. Col. Oldroyd says, "Surgeon Taft stood at the head of the dying president all that dreadful night controlling the flow of the blood from the wound with his finger...
...method of national finance cannot go on. If the Treasury tried to push its borrowings too far, without retrenchments, the world at large might become apprehensive of its financial condition. There would arise the spectre of default, even though remote. Foreign investors would dump their dollar securities. Gold would flow out of the country. Even to its own citizens the Government would be financially suspect. This would become evident in a fall in the market value of all Government bonds. Other bonds, already at low prices, would fall even further. Then would come the wholesale bank failures and general panic...
...When R. C. C.'s pool was authorized by the Interstate Commerce Commission, it was estimated that $100,000,000 would flow into it from increased freight rates. Traffic declines halved the estimate...
...more convincing would it have been to explain simply that once men had seen these pictures they could only with great difficulty be induced to fight, that in consequence the possibility of war would be shoved ever more into the background, and, incidentally, that tax payers money would flow else-where than into the iron coffers of the War Department...