Word: languishment
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...Jack Kapp has worked for phonograph companies since his high school days, when he ran errands during summer vacations. Smart Jack Kapp worked eight years for Columbia, eight years for Brunswick. He discovered many a new talent, promoted many a new selling scheme only to see the phonograph industry languish under the blight of radio...
...known, this process has been, until this summer, prohibitively expensive. By this rather sensational invention England is made more self-sufficient--the ancient British insularity is in part retrieved. No longer must the Navy depend entirely upon the Mesopotamian oil fields, and no longer will the coal mining industry languish under the threat of over-production and lack of market. British destiny may well hinge upon this one point--coals to Newcastle will become a moneymaking proposition. God save the King--though the rest of the world be falling about their ears, Britons never will be slaves...
...would reduce the burden of lecturing to the minimum. At Harvard it would allow the upper stratum of the faculty, now overweighted with course work, to devote more of its time to individual and tutorial studies. These benefits cannot be secured if the Film Foundation is allowed to languish in silence to an unmourned demise. Stimulated by an increased use of its productions in courses, it might be placed upon a firm financial basis. It should then be absorbed into the academic structure and its services placed at the disposal of other departments. Action along these lines should be taken...
...Republicans could take serious issue with Governor Roosevelt's rail plan because too many of its features were good G. O. P. doctrine which had been allowed to languish in a Washington preoccupied for three years with more immediate problems...
...built in a government factory. Instead of having his own practice, he would be paid a salary?possibly $5,000 or $10,000?by a State agency controlling all legal services. He would be assigned to cases much as attorneys are now assigned by the court. Corporate litigation would languish and die. The Law, and like it Medicine, would become a profitless institutional affair for the common good...