Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British-Israel theory is complete nonsense, as anyone with the slightest knowledge of history, anthropology or philology can tell. Using the same method of the similarity of names, it is possible to "prove" that the American Indians are descendants of the ancient Greeks: the Kiowas came from Chios, the Croatans from Crotona, the Aleuts from Eleusis, the Chilkats from Chalkis...
...frozen in a block of ice; thawed out by a young man's ardent dancing, she comes to life, but as her enthusiasm waxes, his wears out, and at the end it is he who is frozen solid. Welles helped with the staging, came through with a method of displaying Heroine Colette Marchand as if she were suspended in ice. Near the finish, he was dithering nervously in the wings when a drapery covering the frozen hero began to tear as it was raised. Stagehands began to panic, but Welles rose to the occasion: "Continuez! Continuez!" he yelled...
TELEMETER, Paramount Pictures' device for bringing first-run movies and special events to tele viewers, will shortly get its first test (and the first test of any method of telecasting first-run movies). In Palm Springs, Calif., 400 homes will see a feature film the same night it is premiered in movie houses. Viewers will drop coins into their sets to "unscramble" the telecast, which cannot be received on an unmetered...
...could find a permanent peacetime method to spur industry to build new plants and modernize old ones-thus achieving the higher productivity which brings down prices and raises real wages-the consumer would benefit enormously. The U.S. has achieved such expansion in wartime through the use of "accelerated amortization," otherwise known as the "quick tax write-off." This permits the writing off of defense-essential plants and equipment in five years instead of the 20 normally required by the Internal Revenue Bureau. In World War I, this practice spurred the building of $650 million in new facilities; in World...
...sound way of doing this is use of the "declining balance" method. This would allow a big deduction, perhaps half of the cost, in the first few years' use of new equipment when the rate of obsolescence is greatest. Thus, with the biggest cost of equipment written off, a manufacturer would always have an incentive to modernize his plant. But, with a sizable portion of the cost still to be paid for, there would also be a deterrent to buying new equipment just to spend taxable profits...