Word: muste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...need to emphasize" he said, "that Koenigstein's population hails this day of liberation from the foreign yoke. How we have longed for the day! I must, however, declare that the British troops did not make life as hard for us as some French troops who were quartered on us previously...
...most appropriate uses to which a capitalist may put his capital is its employment in the field of electric light and power. He must be a potent capitalist, since an investment of millions is needed to turn the currents of rivers into currents of electricity. Once in operation, however, an electric utility is almost a natural monopoly with unlimited possibilities for expansion and a product equally essential to U. S. homes and U. S. factories. A power house is a match to light a thousand lamps, a motor to turn a thousand wheels...
...every good bank come many sound investing opportunities which must be refused because of legal restrictions. So, in order to widen their operating field, most large banks have investment affiliates, somewhat less conservative than the banks themselves. Step Three in the employment of currency would obviously be for the bank to organize an investment trust, and that is what Chicago's Continental-Illinois Bank Trust Co., largest U. S. bank outside Manhattan, did last week. President was Arthur Reynolds, who is board chairman of Continental-Illinois. Vice-president was James R. Leavell, also a Continental-Illinois vice president...
...perfect industrial metal must be stronger than steel, lighter than aluminum, heat resisting, tough. Metallurgists have not compounded it. But some 6,000 of them felt that they were approaching the goal as they listened to metallurgical discourses of the National Metal Congress held last week at Cleveland, the Foundry City.* Manganese-Molybdenum Steel. Hard and sharp were the Samurai swords of Japan, the Toledo blades of Spain, the Damascus cutlery of the Levant-because their steels contained small amounts of molybdenum. However, the presence of molybdenum was accident. Mineralogists did not recognize it as a metal until...
...Petersburg. Interest focusses on Fritz Kortner's interpretation of the Tsar, for it is the role with which Emil Jannings scored in The Patriot. The malevolence of Kortner's Tsar is never mitigated by the lunatic innocence which Jannings managed to suggest. Both are vivid; you must decide for yourself. Best shots: Tsar Paul fascinated by the first harpsichord he has ever seen, wriggling underneath it. ... Tsar Paul scanning the room with only the whites of his eyes...