Word: metallically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government was not yet stealing doorknobs but was so crucially short of metal for Rearmament that President Roosevelt had to call for action...
...science was given a new name. Hydroponics, by its foremost U. S. practitioner, Dr. William Frederick Gericke of the University of California. Set out in row's at the University's plant experiment station in Berkeley are a number of shallow tanks made of wood, concrete, metal. From some of these tanks grow thick, towering clumps of tomato plants bearing rich red clusters of fruit. From other tanks and in an equal state of vigor grow potatoes, tobacco, gladioli, begonias. The roots of the plants are not in soil but in chemically treated water...
...Treasury Morgenthau, Chairman James McCauley Landis of SEC and Chairman Marriner Stoddard Eccles of the Federal Reserve Board to study ways & means of discouraging investment of foreign funds in the U. S. With its gold sterilization program (TIME, Jan. 4), the Treasury is now keeping the incoming metal from inflating the credit base. But the huge volume of investments is itself a threat to U. S. stability, particularly in case of war when the money might be suddenly withdrawn. "The constant inflow of foreign capital is a source of worry to us," said Mr. Morgenthau last week in an obvious...
...storekeepers on his board of directors knew anything about insurance, but they "had one simple, brilliant idea. This was to pay 10% of the net profits to the charitable fund of the San Francisco Fire Department and to mark all buildings insured by the company with a metal "house plate." Since they had a financial interest in the company, firemen were expected to surpass themselves putting out fires in these buildings. Whether aided by this or not, the new company did so well in fiery San Francisco that two years later it decided to get along without the Fire Department...
...tiny yellow Aeronca, at $1,355 a Porterfield Zephyr. At $2,468 was the Rearwin Sportster, which flew in from Kansas City on $10.68 in fuel. Speediest looking of the little planes was the Ryan STA, only all-metal job as cheap as $4,885. In a higher bracket were the bigger ships like Bellanca ($23,000), Beechcraft C17R ($14,500), Stinson Reliant ($7,985), Waco ($5,395), Luscombe ($5,500), Monocoupe ($3,825), Argonaut ($5.450), Fairchild 24 ($5,590), stainless steel Fleetwing ($18,500), each with room for several passengers in luxurious automobile-like cabins. Great majority were cabin...