Word: musts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...faces a severe test -and one brought to a crux by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. Under the Monroe Doctrine it is not permissible for Britain to intervene with arms and protect her interests in Latin America, but the same doctrine also carries an implied obligation that the U. S. must keep Latin Americans from doing anything that might be considered provocative by Europeans. Thus if Honduras should order every Lithuanian within its borders decapitated, Lithuania would expect, while keeping the Lithuanian Navy at home, that the U. S. Navy & Marines would avert this outrage...
...Various Conservative M.P.s representing agricultural constituencies warned that "the British farmer is suffering this spring the gravest drought since 1815 and steps must be taken before it is too late...
Highways. Admiral Horthy, realizing that in Hungary the motorist must horn his way through every village at the speed of its cows and chickens, has slated a concrete speedway program modeled on Adolf Hitler's, tied it to Hungarian Rearmament, since a modern army does not march on its stomach but rides on its tires...
...greenhouses on the eucalyptus-shaded campus of the University of California, Dr. William Frederick Gericke has worked out a technique for growing flowers and vegetables in shallow tanks of water, containing in solution the minerals that plants must have. Dr. Gericke calls this kind of crop-growing "hydroponics" (Greek, hydro, water; ponos, labor). His tanks have yielded some remarkable results (TIME, March 1, 1937, et seq.), but there has been much argument over whether hydroponics has any commercial value. Nevertheless, several commercial growers are using the Gericke system, foreign governments have asked questions, and the National Resources Committee has spot...
...industrial advertising films which are televized, and live entertainment. The chief drawback to the films is that the screen is so small that objects in the background are all but subvisible. There is practically nothing but drawbacks to the live programs. The actors, who tan under the Birdseye lights, must work at very close quarters to stay within the camera's focus. They seem to have to compensate for physical restriction by overemoting. Twenty hours of rehearsal are required for an hour of telecasting (an average of four hours for an hour in broadcasting). The dramatic material should...