Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Biggest, longest, most exciting debate of the week was that on Conservative Leader Stanley Baldwin's motion censuring the Labor Government for failure to meet the unemployment crisis. In a House hushed and tense, the Prime Minister warned that if this motion passed, he would at once advise George V to dissolve Parliament and order a general election...
...Baldwin dared not offer his solution for unemployment (high tariffs) last week because he needed to snare as many Liberal (free trade) votes as possible for his motion censuring the Laborites...
...charge of publicity (TIME, March 23). Swart Mr. Griswold is so familiar with the ways of the press that soon many items got them selves into newspapers, to the effect that the financing would be taken care of in due time. President Harley Clarke gave out an interview. "The motion picture business suffered remarkably little from the period of depression," said he. Al though reliable figures on motion picture attendance are not available, Wall Street, judging by the market, did not agree with that opinion. Warner Bros. Pictures bonds may be bought for 50? to 60? on the dollar. Paramount...
...party an announcement was made that Halsey, Stuart & Co. had retired from the entire proceedings. Wall Street became a little more nervous. The ghost, it seemed, must indeed be a big ghost if Halsey, Stuart & Co. backed out, for the firm was one of the first houses to finance motion picture enterprises. Rumored as the chief reason for the withdrawal was Halsey, Stuart & Co.'s objection to the relationship between Fox Film and General Theatres Equipment, which sells much equipment to Fox-controlled theatres...
...taking motion pictures through a quartz window in a gasoline motor's combustion chamber and by registering the 1 pressure changes, Lloyd Withrow and T. A. Boyd of General Motors were able to tell the American Chemical Society at Indianapolis last week exactly why motors knock. Quality of gasoline is the cause. With good fuel a pencil of flame darts from the spark plug and ignites all the charge progressively. This occurs in 1/250 sec. With knocking gasoline, the instant the spark starts ignition, the first burned fuel creates sufficient heat and pressure to ignite all the remaining fuel...