Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Terrific Loss." It was thus not surprising that Pennsylvania's President Martin Withington Clement called the I.C.C. decision a "terrible disappointment," said it would mean a "terrific loss." True, the Pennsylvania did not actually get 3.6? a mile from each customer, as the 3.6? rate represented a standard from which large reductions were commonly made. Actual 1935 revenue per passenger per mile was 2.69?.* But this might drop to 1.7? a mile under the new dispensation...
...honorary basis." Net result in the first week was the laconic announcement that services of six of the ten present chairmen (there are two vacancies) would be "terminated" at the end of April. Presumably they found an "honorary basis" somewhat hollow. Two other chairmen- Atlanta's H. Warner Martin and Cleveland's E. S. Burke Jr. - apparently accepted the "honor." Another two were lucky...
Cried Representative Martin F. Smith of Washington, a Townsendite Democrat: "Certified public accountants have approved the plan's finances. . . . We welcome the investigation but we fear we are fiddling here while Rome is burning." There was no halting the tide of 240-to-4. That evening Robert E. Clements, secretary-treasurer of the Townsend organization, scornfully declared the investigation to be "pure and unadulterated political persecution. . . . These monkeys have played right into our hands. They are giving us the biggest piece of publicity we could ever have hoped to get. We shall be exonerated...
...name most frequently heard at the American Institute of Mining & Metallurgical Engineers convention in Manhattan last week was that of Charles Martin Hall who died in 1914. Reason: aluminum...
...Charles Martin Hall was born in Thompson, Ohio to a Congregational clergyman in 1863. Charles, a handsome, bright-eyed lad, was fascinated by chemistry. One day at Oberlin College he heard his chemistry professor say that fortune awaited the man who found a way to make aluminum cheaply. The story is that Charles nudged his neighbor, whispered: "I'm going after that metal." He hit on the idea of finding a solvent for the oxide ore, bauxite, then electrolyzing the solution, sending oxygen to one electrode, pure aluminum to the other. After graduation he cooked indefatigably in his back...