Word: flows
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Although Gypsum has been Mr. Avery's chief interest, other directorates have learned to listen to the flow of anecdotes and discourses on education in which he often indulges at meetings before settling down to the business in hand. His colleagues know that he invariably gets down to business in the end, unhurried, efficient, wise. His other directorates have included Armour & Co., Chicago, Great Western, Chicago Daily News, Container Corp., Continental Illinois Bank & Trust (where he also sits with the executive committee), and a few months ago United States Steel Corp. was added to the list (TIME, July...
...suggested that, if a road reduced a freight rate after accepting the carload increase, the cut be made from the basic rate and not from the sur-rate, thereby insuring a full flow of excess revenue into the credit pool. The A. of R. E. petition protested this arrangement on the ground that roads were justified in cutting some rates to retain business and should not be asked to contribute any part of their present revenue to the pool...
...James Hopwood Jeans, is a machine that is spending itself, expanding like a soap bubble, using up its energy until eventually it will run itself out. Fundamental principle of the Jeans theory is a basic law of physics embodied in the second law of thermodynamics: energy can flow only from a more intense state of availability to a less intense state. Professor Richard Chase Tolman of the California Institute of Technology applied Professor Albert Einstein's relativity theory to thermodynamics, worked out a mathematical model of the universe in which energy does not flow continually downward, but expands...
...rich Tioga County (Pa.) gas field has a possible flow of about 350 million cu. ft. daily, proven reserves of between 125 and 135 billion cu. ft. Until last week the competitive interests who owned the gas had found no adequate market. A pooling of interests is now under way to market some of the gas which will be carried in a 20-in. pipe now abuilding...
...Yale Club will open the program with four numbers: "Fight," a student song of Finland, by R. Faltin; "By Moonlight," by von Othegraven, a tenor solo; "Waters Ripple and Flow," a Czecho-Slovakian folk song arranged by Deems Taylor, sung by J. VanB. Griggs; "Danse Macabre" by Saint Saens. The Harvard singers will follow with three selections: "Give a Rouse" by Bantock; "Der Gang Zum Liebchen" by Brahms; "Fire, Fire My Heart" by Morley. The first part of the program will then be concluded by the joint rendition of several choruses from the Gilbert and Sullivan opera, "The Mikado...