Word: moribundity
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...Wherry, 50, Nebraska, victor over noble but aging Liberal George Norris (see p. 20). Go-Getter Wherry is simultaneously lawyer, funeral director, farmer, owner of three Ford agencies, Mayor of Pawnee City (pop. 1,600). In his spare time, as Republican State Chairman, he revived his State's moribund political organization, antagonized many a veteran politico with his brashness, but got results at the polls...
...bonanza was prospected-and is mostly owned-by Canada's veteran gold miner, Dome Mines Ltd. Engineers of Dome stumbled on the deposit last August when they were frantically looking for something to replace moribund gold digging. Dome will spend $250,000 for new facilities, hopes to mine over 2,000,000 Ib. of the stuff annually-roughly 6% of world production and enough to supply practically all Canadian steel mills. To Dome this is a financial break: molybdenum sells for about 80? a Ib. At peak output the company should gross over $1,600,000 a year...
This week Mr. Roosevelt got ready to announce the setup of the War Labor Board, which will take the place of William Hammatt Davis' now moribund National Defense Mediation Board...
...power project, which would threaten with a sceptre-like "yardstick" the great privately owned, steam-powered utility systems of the industrial Northeast. Utilitymen regard the new turbine as a symbol, great as the monumental dams of the several power Authorities, that their own spirit of technological pioneering is not moribund, as friends of Government power claim. As a sound dollars-&-cents weapon against Government control, it reaffirms Thomas Edison's remark: "Steam power is business; hydro power is politics...
...seemed that the pulmotor squad of Nazi economists was trying to blow a little life into the moribund Italian economy...