Word: jolts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...similar jolt of energy would bolt from a light-weight atom at the instant it acquired energy by merging with another light atom or by accumulating raw energy from circumambient space...
...small hours of Thursday morning the Leverett House indifference and peace of mind received a jolt which sent tutors, students, and janitors into a frenzied hunt. For the "rabbit which is Leverett House" was carried off by force. The matter has been placed into the efficient hands of the Metropolitan Police, but little hope is felt for the return of this mascot and demi-god revered by every staunch heart in the House...
...Hoover rolled up a 49,000-vote majority there. Far & wide the Stewart victory was interpreted as a rebuke to President Hoover, a revolt of worthy middle-class G. O. Partisans against their party because of hard times. The arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune called it "the severest jolt the party has yet sustained." The Democrats, to whom it gave a House majority of two, trumpeted it as a bright omen...
...Ranney of International Harvester Co. said the dividend would be held at $2.50. But sometimes an officer speaks in order to help the price of the stock or before sounding out the directorate. Lately, shareholders have become wary of official statements. Last week their remaining faith received another jolt. On Sept. 29, fresh from Europe, President Simon Guggenheim of American Smelting & Refining Co. told reporters: "In consideration of the smaller stockholders, corporations should maintain dividends as long as it is possible to do so without the necessity of borrowing. . . . For what better purpose could surpluses be used than...
...sponsors, are being shown." So far, advertising films of the type alarming to Producer Castle have been produced only by Warner Bros, and Paramount. Paramount samples: a series entitled Movie Memories, comprising old newsreels, early shots of current stars, by courtesy of Liggett & Myers; My Merrie Oldsmobile, song cartoon; Jolt for General Germ, cartoon extolling Lysol. Warner Bros, samples: one-reel plays advertising Chesterfields; On the Slopes of the Andes, a coffee cultivation panorama to further Great Atlantic & Pacific grocery sales. Warner Bros, have contracted for a dozen or so more advertising shorts, Paramount for 50. Advertising films which cost...