Word: maine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Woolworth car, having finished its travels and peacefully retired to a siding, the Association of Distributors offered the Warehousemen's Union a "master contract" to end the lockout. Main feature of the contract, designed to replace the union's existing or expired contracts with individual warehousemen: compulsory arbitration, no strikes or lockouts until 1940, to prevent quickie stoppages during the Golden Gate International Exposition next year. This offer the warehousemen refused, on the ground that having all the contracts expire at once would precipitate another general crisis...
...Main approach to the problem of utilization of solar energy has been study of green plants, which in their own simple and mysterious way utilize the energy of sunlight to convert carbon dioxide and water into food. Chief agent in this process of photosynthesis is chlorophyll, the green coloring-matter in leaves, which acts as a catalyst, speeding up the transformation, but undergoing no conversion itself. Since chlorophyll is not effective as a catalyst when extracted from the plant, chemists have been unable to study its action. It is composed of two separate pigments, blue-green chlorophyll A and yellow...
...Main objective of the U. S. Maritime Commission in its task of reviving the U. S. merchant marine is the construction of at least 500 new ships in the next ten years. To man these ships, the commission wants well-trained men. In his straight-from-the-shoulder critique of U. S. shipping last year, Joseph Patrick Kennedy, then commission chairman, recommended Government-run training schools for seamen as one sure way of insuring a skilled personnel. At this suggestion the warring factions of U. S. marine labor stopped making faces at one another long enough to make a unanimous...
Last week Holmdel attracted some 6,000 clansmen dressed in kilts and plaids. Main event of the day, as usual, was the piping contest. Contestants were judged on points, 100 being regarded as a perfect score. Twenty-five of the hundred points were allowed for time, 25 for tone, 50 for execution (the technique of trills and capers with which every good piper decks out the tune he is playing). If a piper missed a melodic trick, or if he allowed his reed to "choke" (stop vibrating for lack of air), he was docked a point...
...main narrative is much simpler-the story of six seamen aboard a tramp schooner bound from Norway to Newfoundland, with a couple of months ashore in Iceland, where the captain is laid up with pneumonia...