Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed the tax reduction bill with amendments made on the floor increasing the amount of tax reduction proposed from $350,000,000 to more than $450,000,000, by vote of 58 to 9. (Bill went to joint conference committee...
Chairman Alvan Markle of the joint conference brought out a U. S. flag and waved it, counseling both sides to make peace for the sake of the country. Instead they voted to adjourn the negotiations subject to call by Mr. Markle or by either side...
...whole duty of airplanes is now made manifest, in 52 folio pages, compiled, examined and approved by expert engineers, designers and men of the air. Last week H. M. Crane, General Motors technician and chairman of a joint committee of the U. S. Bureau of Standards and the Society of Automotive Engineers, announced completion of the "aircraft safety code." A five-year labor, the code includes regulations for the design, manufacture, testing and operation of all types of craft, qualifications for pilots, traffic rules...
...volts is applied to a bar of steel corresponding to a bar of tinsmith's solder, which is pressed along the crevice between two surfaces that are to be joined. The bar is melted, as are both the girder surfaces along the line of the joint, and the molten strip thus formed fuses instantly to a connection of solid metal...
...Washington, a body called the National Commission on Economy and Efficiency of the Business Administration of School Systems was appointed by joint action of Secretaries Hoover of Commerce and Work of the Interior, and Dr. Frank W. Ballou of the National Education Association. What called this formidable-sounding organization into existence? Simply this: U. S. taxpayers, while believing in their public schools, are not altogether satisfied that education is run in a businesslike way. The nation's yearly two-billion-dollar public education bill is twice that of 1920, four times that...