Word: modernism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...still clinging to the discarded and discredited wage theories and working conditions of the pre-War period. It is still believed and practiced that low rates of pay are synonymous with low labor costs. . . . The labor union has not been accepted as a permanent and inevitable institution in modern industrial life...
Linz on the Danube is large, modern, comparatively prosperous. There are large iron works and ship yards for building river boats. Perched dramatically on a pine-clad rock just outside of Linz is feudal Schloss Waxenberg, subject of Linz's most popular post cards, hereditary fief of proud Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg. Linz's industrial population is heartily Socialist. Prince Ernst, lord of Schloss Waxenberg, is loudly, violently Royalist. Unlike most Austrian princes he is still rich. Despite the cordial hatred of Linz factory workers, he is treated with the greatest deference and respect...
Improvement in railway net operating income has generally resulted not so much from increases in gross income as from decreases in operating costs. Railroads are being more efficiently run, and by more capable managers. Nor is there any more typical example of the modern rail executive than Southern Pacific's Paul Shoup, man most responsible for Southern Pacific's present scope and vigor...
Ship lines, well aware of their advantages, are rapidly increasing their competition. Last month a shapely steel whale plunged down the ways at Newport News. Va., and was christened Pennsylvania. Last week fitters were busy installing finishings, running gear and, of special significance in a modern freight carrier, refrigerating and air-cooling machinery. Owned by the Panama Pacific line, turbo-electric driven, the Pennsylvania has twin sisters, Virginia and California. The Virginia began last winter to carry 33,000-ton loads of freight between Atlantic and Pacific ports. The California made her maiden voyage the winter before. The Pennsylvania will...
...Mendeleff, periodic system of the elements; Davy, miner's lamp; Perkin, mauve synthetic coal tar dyes; Faraday, electro magnetic induction; Curie, Radium; Priestley, oxygen; Gay-Lussac, law of combining volumes of gases; Dalton, atomic theory; Solvay, soda from ammonia; Ramsay, the Noble gases; Lavoisier, originator of modern chemistry...