Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sadly detailing his own experiences with TVA, Mr. Willkie claimed that every time his negotiations with TVA Director David Eli Lilienthal reached a crucial point, "there has been an interesting coincidence in threats of duplication, either from the PWA or the Chattanooga Power Board...
...refugees into the country. Secretary of the Interior Ickes suggested that as his Matanuska colony of dust-bowl refugees grew, it would open up a frontier where Jewish professional people would be needed and welcome. This was long-range stuff, however, and the Secretary was emphatic on the point that other U. S. territories like the Hawaiian Islands and Puerto Rico were already overpopulated...
...Goebbels is sometimes described in print as a barking, brawling, screaming propaganda maniac. Actually the Minister for Propaganda & Public Enlightenment is one of the great political orators of this century. He opens suavely, is restrained most of the time, mellifluent, knows how to whip a point over with the sting of humor, a trifle crude at times?or very crude if Dr. Goebbels is radiorating to the masses...
...Late in the 19th Century, Pierre Curie, husband of Marie Curie, discovered that-although magnetism is gradually lost with rising temperature-an abrupt change occurs at a certain heat above which iron, nickel and cobalt cease in effect to be magnetic. This critical temperature chemists call the Curie point. These two discoveries underlie the operating principle of a new alloy announced last week in Instruments ("The Magazine of Measurement and Control...
...Developing of special schools along lines of those at Annapolis and West Point to train youths for special jobs in public life and certain business assign...