Word: productivity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Haile Selassie I (Power of Trinity), Elect of God, Light of the World and Conquering Lion of Judah is a member of their race, there is no conclusive ethnological evidence to support that view. The Emperor of Abyssinia, olive-skinned and high-beaked, is best described as an Abyssinian, product of a racial mixture which may or may not include Negro blood...
American Houses, Inc. describes its product as "a machine in which to live." The four-room unit on display cost $3,800 complete, including erection within 100 miles of New York. Shipped by truck from the company's distributing depot, the parts are put together in two weeks under the expert eye of a company superintendent. A local building crew sinks a shallow concrete foundation (there is no cellar), erects a steel frame. Then the walls, consisting of 4-ft.-by-10-ft. panels, are bolted together with long strips of aluminum which give a modernistic effect...
...first March of Time (TIME, Feb. 4) aroused critical excitement less as a finished cinema product than as a bold piece of pioneering in the jungle of pictorial journalism. Vol. I, No. 2 of the same film excels its predecessor in timing, cutting, choice of material. It comes closer to justifying itself as accomplishment rather than as. innovation, makes it apparent that topical cinema which contains no shots of ski-jumpers, cherry-blossom time in Tokyo, or an Atlantic City baby parade is a practicable entertainment formula. Best shot: the Talis- man's huge menacing bow, just before...
Rubber Year. A sprawling giant is U. S. Rubber Co. which makes rubber in Sumatra, tires in Detroit, footwear in Naugatuck. machine belts in Passaic, hot water bottles in Providence. Tires are the principal product, but its salesmen will accept orders for engravers' gum and fruit jar rubbers. It has so many subsidiaries that most statistical services do not bother to list them all. Last week there was hardly a stir when U. S. Rubber announced that it had dropped 16 subsidiaries last year, was preparing to drop 15 more, bringing the total down to 31. Simultaneously President Francis...
...Relapse; or Virtue in Danger," Sir John Vanbrugh's comedy which is to revived at Leverett House at 8.30 o'clock be next Monday is a typical product of the Restoration stage, complete with rakes, fops, confidantes, country squires, and the questionable population of the lunatic fringe of love...