Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Saturday Evening Post story by George Bradshaw on which New Faces is based contained a first-rate comedy idea.. Its hero was a shoestring theatrical impresario whose method consisted of selling a show to several different backers, then making sure that the show was so bad it closed immediately. The method worked perfectly until the unforeseen accident of a hit put the impresario in the miserable position of having to pay 85% of its profits to all its various angels simultaneously. As rewritten by a battery of Hollywood scenarists, this idea is somehow boiled down to the skeleton...
...Radium Chemical Co. demonstrated with a capsule containing one-tenth of a gram of radium. Gamma rays shooting out at a million or more volts passed through steel castings a foot thick, photographed the interior structure on X-ray films 10 by 12 in. in size. Tested by this method are steering posts of ships, turbines, valves, high-pressure steam pipes. Dr. Lange reported that in most Army and Navy purchases of heavy steel equipment, radium-testing is now required...
Last week Dr. Peet prescribed the method of administering this: "The subject is seated and an attendant holds the head tilted backward about 45°. This is the usual position for a nasal examination. A speculum is introduced into the nostril and under direct vision the spray tip is inserted upward along the septum until definitely past the middle turbinate. If it impinges on the roof of the nose it is slightly withdrawn. The bulb is squeezed the number of times required to introduce ice. of solution. This amount completely covers the olfactory area. A similar procedure is then carried...
...much as 99% of earnings in dividends rather than 27% in surplus profits tax. Contented stockholders would buy more stock, return to their company as much cash or more than they received in dividends. One of the first big companies to go the whole hog on this method of making everybody but the Collector of Internal Revenue happy was Sears, Roebuck & Co., which paid out approximately all it earned to its 34,500 stockholders, then proceeded to sell them $43,000,000 worth of new stock (TIME, Nov. 9). Since then the necessity to replenish working capital funds depleted...
...name to an opinion in accounting proceedings in some patent infringement suits which brought sewage disposal smack into the dinner-table conversation of every taxpayer in the city. To Activated Sludge, Inc., which had sued the City of Milwaukee, its Sewerage Commission and several contractors for using its patented method of treating sewage and certain patented apparatus used for this purpose without license, Judge Ferdinand A. Geiger awarded profits and damages of $4,977,000, the equivalent of a $6 tax increase for each $1,000 of real and personal property value on' Milwaukee's assessment rolls. What...