Word: formulas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arthur Newell Talbot '81, professor-emeritus of municipal sanitary engineering, able traction engineer (formula for laying railway curves, moving train stresses on tracks), pioneer in the development of reinforced concrete, the design of municipal sewage plants...
...Washington no longer trifled with such dilatory proposals. With a bold unity they demanded from the inexorably Dry House committee: Repeal of the 18th Amendment; Return of liquor control to the States, leaving to the Federal Government only its duty of restricting interstate liquor shipments. Such a Wet formula was known as "Repeal & Return." Political realists who considered such a drastic step impracticable and visionary alternately proposed that only the Volstead Act be repealed and the 18th Amendment be specifically amended to permit local option...
...engineering formula will solve the intangible problems of politics. Such problems last week beset President Hoover. He had been one year in office. The executive side of his administration was in good shape. The legislative side was not. Congress had given him only one measure, a Farm Relief Act. In the Senate the tariff blocked all other legislation (see p. 17). Important appropriation bills were stacking up. Both Wets and Drys in Congress were dissatisfied with his handling of Prohibition through the Wickersham Commission, editors began to write leaders about his loss of popularity...
...clerk stopped droning. A little councilman named Walz hopped to his feet, demanded Mr. Hopkins' immediate dismissal. He offered no formal charges. A few letters, mostly favoring Mr. Hopkins, were read. The clerk droned a formula. The vote: for dismissal, 14; against...
...leggers had learned how to "cook out" milder denaturants. What Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Lowman called "a last resource" was the change in Formula 44-A: 100 gal. grain alcohol, 4 gal. wood alcohol (replacing 2 gal. gasoline), 10 gal. fusel oil or amyl alcohol. Chief Chemist William Vanarsdale Linder of the Prohibition Unit explained that alcohol thus denatured was only for the varnish and lacquer industry, not for the public...