Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Right to a Job." Aubrey Williams, emotional Deputy WPAdministrator in Washington, who last fortnight bluntly told WPAsters how to vote (see p. 13), last week bluntly stated to the Conference his basic conception of Work Relief as a permanent U. S. institution. He defended the "idiotic idea that it was the duty of government to find its citizens work." "Under modern conditions of depressed purchasing power, this assertion of the right to work, the right to a job, is not visionary social idealism - it is simple economic realism, for it is the quickest and cheapest way to attain full economic...
Stressed at the Italian Foreign Office was the diplomatic nicety that Rightist Spain was an independent country, also hinted was the idea that Generalissimo Franco might choose to ignore Friend Mussolini's "advice." Result last week, however, of Dictator Mussolini's "discreet influence" was that no more British ships were bombed, no more British lives lost...
...FORTUNE pointed out last week in an article on K.C.L. A2, Continental's scientists and executives had no idea of making a record when the well was started. Encouraged by oil and gas strikes in a radius of 25 miles, they thought they would hit producing sand at 9,000 or 10,000 ft. They "spudded in" at midnight on June 21, 1937, using a 20-in. bit. In drilling for oil, the bit is carried on a shaft of hollow pipe, in 30-ft. lengths screwed together. A powerful steam engine on the surface spins the pipe...
...other perquisites furnished him. And with an advertising expenditure vastly smaller than its competitors Philip Morris has for five years had the fastest growth of them all. This, Milton Biow lays to the fact that Philip Morris has stuck to one theme and one slogan without switching from one idea to another every few months as do many others. At any rate Philip Morris spent only $908,497 for advertising (exclusive of radio talent) in 1937 as compared with $8,500,000 for Camel, $8,900,000 for Chesterfield, $5,600,000 for Luckies...
...bothered bankers was only one of the reasons the Administration wanted them unified. Of more immediate concern was a belief that the various stiff restrictions on bank investments might explain the fact that today U. S. banks have $2,780,000,000 in excess reserves sitting idle. This second idea of Mr. Roosevelt's did not appear until last fortnight. Until then a committee of underlings had been absorbed solely in the technicalities of unifying the existing examinations. Fortnight ago, in a letter to Senator Vandenburg, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Marriner Stoddard Eccles suggested that bank regulations should...