Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Navy probably could build 750 mosquitoes, as an experiment plans to order four immediately. On the theory that the U. S. probably will never have to fight a naval war at home, Navy men in Washington last week still discounted the value of mosquitoes. But the idea of a little boat snapping at a big boat intrigues taxpayers and Congressmen. And in wartime, a healthy small-boat industry will be useful to the Navy...
Originator of the idea was slim, vigorous septuagenarian Vernon Campbell, long associated with California coops. Legislature approved a similar bill two years ago, but ex-Governor Frank F. Merriam killed it with a pocket veto. Busy Mr. Campbell has already organized his Exchange, with a board of directors including top flight Los Angeles bigwigs. Los Angeles Times Editor Ralph Trueblood offered to help, was told to lay low lest he scare off California Democrats. Liberal Publisher Manchester Boddy also was asked to keep quiet, lest he frighten Republicans...
...original idea for the Eiffel Tower came from America, where a similar structure was proposed for the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876. Parisians jeered at Engineer Gustave Eiffel's "monster of the imagination," predicted that it would fall down. Alexandre Dumas, fils, called it a "horror." Because of "this torturing, inevitable nightmare," Guy de Maupassant fled the capital. M. Eiffel smiled, gave his personal fortune to finish the Tower, after Government funds ran out when it was one-fourth completed. The Tower attracted nearly two million cash customers in its first year, brought its builder wealth and made...
...15th Century cocky composers sometimes showed off by writing compositions that could be played backwards as well as forwards. These compositions, called cancrizans or "crab style" (because of a mistaken idea that crabs walk backwards) were as difficult to construct as crossword puzzles. But they were not worth listening...
...usual when the golden tide laps high on U. S. shores, reporters went to see Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau. As usual, he pooh-poohed the idea of inflation. But though he said the gold was not affecting U. S. economy, it was amply clear that the continued European crisis was. Markets were nervous. Businessmen cut their buying for the future so low that three new indexes of inventories published by the National Industrial Conference Board touched the lowest point since May 1937. Most cheerful fact of the week (to businessmen): the sales ratio of twin beds to double beds...