Word: moulton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prospector-inventor had met a promoter named Archie Moulton Andrews, had been persuaded to let him display the Schick shaver along with his own Lektrolite cigaret lighter at the Chicago world's fair. After a disagreement over distributing rights, Promoter Andrews developed his own dry shaver, the Packard, and began to sell it with noisy ballyhoo. A typical advertisement pictured a small child from behind & below, with a caption: "JUST AN IDEA OF HOW SMOOTH YOUR FACE FEELS AFTER USING A PACKARD LEKTRO-SHAVER." Jacob Schick sued Archie Andrews for infringement of his patent, but he lost...
...Economic Progress, therefore took as its theme the factors that entered into an executive's choice of certain prices for his company's products. Lion's share of the credit for the first four volumes went to the Institution's president, bald, vigorous Harold G. Moulton. Actually the concept was as much the creation of its Institute of Economics director, tall, distinguished-looking Dr. Edwin Griswold Nourse (rhymes with "course") and the latest book is published over his name and that of Horace B. Drury. Brother of Novelist Alice Tisdale Hobart (Oil for the Lamps...
...AMERICA'S CAPACITY TO PRODUCE, Edwin G. Nourse & Associates; AMERICA'S CAPACITY TO CONSUME, Maurice Leven, Harold G. Moulton, Clark Warburton; THE FORMATION OF CAPITAL, Harold G. Moulton; INCOME & ECONOMIC PROGRESS, Harold G. Moulton...
Thus last week spoke Dr. Harold Glenn Moulton, president of the Brookings Institution, before the annual meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers in Manhattan. No mere plaint against labor was Dr. Moulton's argument. It was in fact but the converse of a familiar thesis, that higher wages and shorter hours are necessary to compensate for technological progress. The cause of 1937's slump, said Dr. Moulton, was that there had been not enough increase in productive efficiency to compensate for the raising of wages and the simultaneous lowering of working hours...
...officially approved the plan for some of the world's most learned men to form an international body of thinkers and knowers that might light up a world darkened by malice, ignorance and fear. Dreamily unpractical though such a notion was in the light of past experience, Secretary Moulton began to draw up U. S. contributions to a world platform on which a World Association of Science, if formed, could stand...