Word: formulas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Smart farmers use the so-called 12-10-1 corn-hog formula to determine whether it is more profitable to sell corn as corn or as pork The formula: when 100 Ib. of hog is worth more nan 12 bu. of corn, raise hogs: when worth less, sell corn. At farm prices hogs are now sellmg for about $11 per cwt., while 12 bu of corn are worth more than $15. Thus corn is favored. Originated during the War when Herbert Hoover, the Food Administrator, was trying to boost hog production, the formula is actually 11.6-to-1, but farmers...
...once a staple product of the cinema industry, have been out of fashion since The Prizefighter and the Lady. First of its sort since the resounding failure of that venture in 1933. Kid Galahad, adapted from a realistic Saturday Evening Post story by Francis Wallace, improves on the old formula by concerning itself less with the ring prowess of its hero, Ward Guisenberry (Wayne Morris) than with the grimy background of the fight industry as exemplified by his manager, Nick Donati (Edward G. Robinson). Nicknamed Kid Galahad when, as an unsophisticated bellhop, he knocks out the heavyweight champion...
Well in advance of the annual depredations of grasshoppers, farmers and gardeners who read Science last week found a new, cheap and effective poison against the pests. Its significant ingredient is Epsom salt (magnesium sulphate), the common medicine cabinet drug ordinarily used for purging, poulticing, reducing. The formula which the discoverers, Mr. & Mrs. Hubert W. Frings of the University of Oklahoma, recommended contains bran (60% to 65%), molasses (15%), Epsom salt (20% to 25%), and enough water to moisten. This formula, they say, ''seems to be just as effective as the [common] 5% arsenic bait, it is cheaper...
...embodying a new labor policy for Steel. Says FORTUNE: "Whether by coincidence or design, the statement is exactly 100 words long, and these 100 words represent a summer's work. But they packed more dynamite than any 100 words ever written by a U. S. industrialist." The Taylor formula for industrial peace...
With this formula in his pocket Mr. Taylor returned to the U. S. last September. Among his own directors he found support as well 'as opposition to his plan. Outside the reaction was cooler. It was about this time that a movement got underway, led by General Motors and a few of the steel independents, to form a "united front" of big industry against the C. I. O. drive. Attending one of the "united front" meetings and being told that the time had come for a labor-capital showdown, Mr. Taylor arose to announce that he would have nothing...