Word: offset
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today's program is nicely balanced, with Paul Muni's admirable interpretation of "The Story of Louis Pastcur" offset by Claudett Colbert and Melvyn Douglas in "She Married Her Boss." Tomorrow, however, they are abandoning the old name of "review day" in favor of "Romance Day," bringing to the screen Stokowski in "100 Men and a Girl" and Garbo in "Anna Karenina." This idylic couple, last heard from on the Isle of Capri, got widely diverging reactions from the local public. The big Swede left Harvard hearts cold, but the stoical Stokowski received such an overwhelming Radcliffe vote that...
...upstate New York and Pennsylvania. Cold blast furnaces drove trade in the Pittsburgh region down 19%. In the furniture manufacturing area near Albany, citizens felt the dearth of new furniture buying and due to that and other causes trade fell 15%. Florida's dwindling tourist influx was offset by a flock of new paper mills to keep the decline to 18%. Birmingham coal and iron mines were less active. Cotton mills in Georgia and the Carolinas, which were working overtime year ago, were generally on part time. In Southern California the 13% slump was largely explained by dwindling cinema...
Next day, when a vote was finally taken, Mr. Wheeler's canny amendment was beaten by an even smaller vote than its predecessor-43-to-39. By this time, however, to offset its dwindling majority, the Administration bloc had found a new trump card in the form of charges that a good part of the pressure against the bill had been generated by a high-powered lobby financed by Publisher Frank Gannett. Convening his Lobby Investigation Committee for the first time since he succeeded Hugo Black as its chairman, Indiana's Sherman Minton quickly produced a Dr. Edward...
...Wagnalls Co. No small part of its prestige came from its famed straw votes, whose ballots were accompanied by profitable subscription appeals. For the best part of a generation these polls forecast national election results with great accuracy. But gift premiums added to straw votes were not sufficient to offset growing public apathy toward editorial opinion. In vain the Literary Digest attempted to make itself over from a digest of opinion to a digest of news...
...Diesel burns is cheaper than gasoline and its principle of igniting fuel by heat developed through compression is more efficient than using a spark, the strength required to withstand high internal pressures has made Diesels expensive as well as heavy. Engineers have long tried to make fuel savings offset weight, size and cost, but noticeable success was achieved only in Germany, where Diesels light enough to power the Hindenburg were developed. Last week, however, famed Engineer Charles F. ("Boss") Kettering, who has long experimented with Diesels on his yacht, revealed that he too has found success. In Detroit, General Motors...