Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Robert's sprightlier spirits gained a friend when Walter Livingston ("Livy") Wright Jr. accepted the joint presidency of Robert and Istanbul Woman's Colleges. Simultaneously Princeton lost one of its best-liked, most scholarly professors, raised its list of alumni heading Near East educational institutions...
...solitary speaker at the Dearborn Conference of Industry, Science and Agriculture who did not see the practicality of alcohol-gasoline blending as a panacea for farmers' ills, let me congratulate you on your discerning report on the general proceedings there. A joint impartial study of the project, proposed through me by the American Petroleum Institute, if accepted by the Chemical Foundation, will reveal the fallacy of the project on the basis of present conditions and costs and the hopelessness of future manufacture of alcohol at prices of 7? per gallon, such as are predicted by enthusiastic protagonists...
...bill. In Florida, Producer Schenck conferred with President Sidney Kent of Fox, ostensibly about a wild plan to have Florida put up $10,000,000 by popular subscription to build moving picture studios. Last week Presidents Schenck and Kent revealed what they really had talked about by issuing a joint statement which said that plans had been completed for the biggest cinema merger of the year, between Fox and Twentieth Century...
...86th annual convention at Atlantic City. At the same time and place the Canadian Medical Association will hold its 66th annual session. It will be the first time in history that organized U. S. Medicine (99,532 members) and organized Canadian Medicine (2,652 members) have held such a joint session. About 8,000 doctors from south of the Border, about 2,000 from north of the Border are expected to attend...
...back with airconditioning, streamlining, high speeds, lower fares (TIME, May 13). The problem was not so much to popularize travel or sell individual tours as to make rail-riding look attractive once more. To do that job, 26 railroads and Pullman Co. combined for the first time in a joint institutional advertising campaign which comes to a climax next week with Railroad Week...