Word: nationalized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week as hundreds of the nation's scientists journeyed home from the midwinter convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, physicists were excited and disturbed because doubt had been cast on the constancy of m. The doubter was Professor George Eric MacDonnell Jauncey of Washington University (St. Louis). In a specially arranged speech after the close of the meeting, he urged that m be considered a variable, offered experiments to back up his view...
...concerts. But George Denny conceived a bigger mission for Town Hall. With a zealot's belief that revival of the old New England town meeting was needed to make democracy work, he began in 1935 to put on a weekly town meeting demonstration in Town Hall for a nation-wide radio audience. Soon a good part of the U. S. population was listening to his verbal prize fights and Town Hall had overflow audiences. Some 700 groups have been formed in many a U. S. town to listen to Town Hall's programs and discuss them afterwards...
...audience heckles everybody. The auditors boo and cheer, are made up of the rich and poor, the well-informed and the ignorant. Once a questioner shouted: "I don't object to President Roosevelt's using the radio to inform the country on the state of the nation but I do object to his using it to propagate...
Because of its war potentialities the Government's helium sales program establishes-after critical investigation of necessity-yearly quotas for any nation that applies for gas. So far only one nation, Germany, has applied and its share for 1938 is 17,900,000 cubic feet, enough to fill the LZ-130's 7,000,000-odd cubic foot gas bag and compensate it for the loss of about 300,000 cubic feet each time it crosses the Atlantic on the airship's projected 18 round trips this year. As helium costs about 1? per cubic foot...
...total world production of 1,314,369 units. In another respect, however-public relations-1937 was perhaps the worst year in Ford history. Once universally regarded as a model employer, in 1937 Henry Ford saw himself and his company held up to hatred in a suddenly labor-conscious nation. Only fortnight ago came an adverse ruling on his labor policies by the National Labor Relations Board. But Henry Ford has not merely a genius for building machines; he also has, whenever he cares to display it, an extremely canny sense of diplomacy. Last week he cared to display...