Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cinema Ingagi was not reviewed by TIME because, when the film was rejected by Motion Pictures and Distributors of America, Inc., TIME supposed that would be the last of Ingagi, but "Congo Pictures Ltd.," the producers, are reported doing a thriving business with independent distributors. National Better Business Bureau, Inc. has exposed, and the American Society of Mammalogists has condemned, the picture on many counts, including the following...
...houses argued for 14 hours, telegraphed, telephoned across the sea. Due to unsettled markets the offering price of the German Government International 5½% Loan 1930 bonds was reduced from a pre-arranged 92 to an attractive 90. This was opposed by representatives of national treasuries; opposed also was the motion offered by Montagu Collet Norman, director of the Bank of England, that the U. S. banking group's commission be fixed at a higher rate than that given to others, by reason of the U. S. marketing system. Not until 12:30 a. m. (Wednesday morning) were these motions approved...
...condition of unstable equilibrium in the atmosphere. A warm, damp air layer close to land or sea attempts to rise through a layer of cool, dry air. The warm air literally breaks a hole in the cooler air, rushes upward. Passing through the hole it assumes a whirling motion. The centrifugal force of the column develops a partial vacuum on the inside...
President Hoover repeated this formula once again last week to set in motion his 13th Presidential commission. Its subject: the merchant marine. The occasion: a deep-rooted controversy within the U. S. Shipping Board over the sale of the Government-owned Black Diamond and Cosmopolitan trans-Atlantic freight-lines. For more than a year disposal of these services has been delayed while the two operating companies and the U. S. lines wrangled with the Shipping Board over purchase bids. The President said commission No. 13 would also supervise the financing and building by U. S. lines of two new Leviathan...
...Backing up Scot MacDonald (282 to 201) in his signing of the London Naval Treaty, the House defeated a Conservative motion to "investigate," urged by Winston Churchill who shouted: "Never since the reign of Charles II has this country been so defenseless...