Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...driven clock (kept wound electrically) which will run during the failure of the electric supply and measure exactly the duration of the interruption. When the electric service is restored, the control cuts in a connecting motor generator set which drives all the clocks on the system at greater than normal speed until the lapsed time is made up. When the clocks are again thrown on the electric service...
...Glass Bill will make it possible for small industries now unable to obtain credit through normal banking channels to get federal dollars without slashing through a mass of red tape. The Federal Reserve Banks are authorized to loan $280,000,000 and the RFC an additional...
...Chamber's chief interest. The hard-bitten Chicago lawyer refused to admit that he was a Roosevelt wolf-crier but his speech was shot with such phrases as "hysterical legislation . . . unbearable if not confiscatory taxes . . . lack of confidence, the greatest menace to the revival of normal business...
...22nd annual meeting of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. Behind the Chambermen and their fellow capitalists lay a year of solid recovery. In 1933 they had assembled with their hearts in their throats and despair in their hearts. Last week their hearts were almost back to normal. President Henry Ingraham Harriman keynoted on "American Progress under American Methods...
...between three and four feet tall, though some (notably the one who was photographed on J. P. Morgan's lap during a Senate investigation last year) are as tiny as 1 ft. 9 in. Midgets bitterly resent being miscalled dwarfs, who are usually misshapen or deformed. Usually born normal, and of normal parents, midgets invariably produce normal children. Though many of the earth's 2,000 living midgets come from Austria, Hungary and Germany, about one-sixth of them are natives of the U. S. Midgets do not always marry each other; sometimes exercise a strange fascination over...