Word: major
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollywood, all actors in all major studios last week began to punch time clocks to enable them to collect time-and-a-half pay for overtime after 48 hours a week, according to the Screen Actors Guild's new agreement with producers...
Images on ordinary transparent cellulose film are projected on a screen by a light behind the film. Images on non-transparent metal alloy film are projected by reflection from a light in front of the film. Major potentialities of metal alloy film outside the entertainment industry: mapmaking, microfilm reproductions of checks and documents, historical records for which cellulose film, which lasts only about 25 years, is unsatisfactory...
...shortcomings of Men With Wings are not due to Director William Augustus ("Wild Bill") Wellman's lack of qualifications for his job. A Lafayette Flying Corps pilot during the War, he launched aviation as a major cinema subject with Wings in 1927, thereafter rated as one of the industry's top specialists in aviation epics. More lately his forte has been screwball comedies (Nothing Sacred). To Wellman these apparently dissimilar types seem closely connected. The extraordinary conduct of Pat Falconer in Men With Wings illustrates his belief that Wartime fliers experienced such intense emotional turmoil that none...
Sensory perception in animals is a major preoccupation in the psychology laboratories of the University of Rochester. There young John Warkentin, by recording the eye movements of animals placed inside a striped, revolving cylinder, has tested visual acuity in such difficult subjects as snakes, frogs, toads, turtles, alligators, gophers, Gila monsters. Some months ago Rochester's psychology department chairman, Dr. Leonard Carmichael, left to become president of Tufts College. He was replaced by trim, twinkly, soft-spoken Elmer Augustine Kurtz Culler, formerly of the University of Illinois, who has made profound studies of the "conditioned response" and whose specialty...
...with the railroad as a stenographer. Last week the directors of Burlington, now fifth largest U. S. railroad (in revenue), gathered at No. 1 Wall Street, Manhattan, made Mrs. Alden secretary and assistant treasurer. She is the first woman ever elected to a high executive position in a major U. S. railroad. Last week, as she moved into her new office, her first official act was to have the cuspidor moved...