Word: pointedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Japanese once again pointed out to Sir Robert that the 48,000,000 Chinese dollars (worth approximately $4,300,000 last week) still held by Chinese and foreign banks inside the Concession, originally belonged to the North China Government at Peking. In 1935, when the Central Government...
Still hopeful, the engineers proceeded to the main experiment: a signal sent by remote control from a 100,000-watt transmitter 10 miles away at Hicksville, L. I., the antenna of which pointed toward Mars at an angle of 30°. By common consent, the "message" was a meaningless succession...
Compared to Mr. Grace's report about the first half of 1939, what he had to say about the last half was bitter. The automobile industry, he pointed out, is covered on its steel requirements until early 1940, lesser users of strip mill products until October. Meanwhile, Bethlehem'...
Lame, lank, atrabilious Charles Grey Grey is a 32nd generation Northumberlander. He studied engineering at London's Crystal Palace School of Engineering. Never more than a competent draftsman, he took to peddling bicycles, then advertising for a motoring journal, The Autocar. The Autocar's, editors presently discovered in...
Last week, Mr. Groesbeck began to see daylight. At a White House press conference, the President used a routine question about TVA as an opportunity to take newsmen up the mountain. He pointed out that "a company," obviously meaning Washington Water Power, in Grand Coulee and Bonneville territory had just...