Word: free
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week toward a car which is to cost about $400, and no interest will be paid on the weekly deposits. If 1,000,000 of Germany's workers subscribe, $104,000,000 will pour in to help build the KdF factory. Meanwhile, batches of apprentices, supplied with free board & lodging, are in training for the "high honor" of working in the new factory...
Last winter a free-lance deep-sea diver and experimenter named Max Nohl had himself lowered 420 ft. to the bottom of Lake Michigan, thus making the world's deepest dive to date in a diving suit (TIME, Dec. 13).* In so doing, Max Nohl conclusively showed the value of a helium-oxygen mixture for deep diving. Helium is a light gas, requires little effort to inhale. It also seems to forestall that bugbear of divers, "the bends" (gas bubbles in the blood...
...imitators of the Anti-Mothball Society have yet been reported. But last week in Dublin, Ga., Rev. T. B. Seibenham put a notice SEATS FREE on his Centenary Methodist Church, on the chance that it might increase attendance. The sign attracted such an unaccustomed spate of worshipers that Mr. Seibenham took a second look at it. It had been altered to read: EATS FREE...
...before a grand jury for violation of the Sherman Act. Although there are 60 cooperative health organizations in the U. S., with a total membership of 1,500,000, Trust-Buster Arnold declared that he was not concerned with justifying their method of medical care. "There should be free and fair competition between new forms of organization for medical service and older types of practice. ..." The A. M. A. violated the Sherman Act, Arnold said, because it attempted to prevent "qualified doctors from carrying on their calling, and members of the Group Health Association from selecting physicians of their...
...young Queen Victoria, having ruled England for a year, stood on the balcony of Buckingham Palace with a proclamation. "Because the slaves of Jamaica are impatient for freedom," she read in a thin young voice, "we proclaim them free; and 100 years from this day the plantations of Jamaica shall be divided into small pieces, and each descendant of these freedmen shall be given a small piece." The crowd cheered; the more enthusiastic abolitionists threw their hats...