Word: research
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Radical Research Committee The American Legion Department of California San Francisco, Calif...
...entertainment medium. Nevertheless, of the 10,000 "educational" films now catalogued and available in the U. S. the overwhelming majority are dull, amateurish, or technically obsolete. Of the two biggest professional producers. Eastman Kodak Co. has manufactured since 1926 some 200 silent films on historical and scientific subjects, Electrical Research Products Inc. a scanty 40 sound films. Most Hollywood producers think that the effective market is too small for profit. Of the 300,000 schoolhouses in the land, only 10,000 have 16 mm. projectors and of these less than 700 are equipped for sound. With too few films...
...then killed by a motorcar. They pointed with pride to the deaf-mutes who make high mark in the world today-Sculptor Elmer A. Hannon, Poet Howard Leslie Terry, blind Pianist Helen May Martin, Dancers Charlotte & Charles Lamberton, Dentist A. H. Clancy of Cincinnati, Broker Samuel Frankenheim of Manhattan, Research Librarian Elizabeth McLeod of the New York Public Library, President Arthur Lawrence Roberts of the National Fraternal Society of the Deaf (a $2,000,000 insurance company exclusively for deaf-mutes), N. A. D.'s President Kenner who owns a Manhattan printing establishment and insurance bureau. In general, nonetheless...
...company's' stock to found a child guidance clinic in New Orleans, where he made his fortune in bananas, fostered Central American revolutions and still lives. All told, he has given New Orleans' Tulane University approximately $1,000,000 to found a department of Middle American research...
...basis to 200 writers on their list. Forty of these are professors at Columbia, Fordham, New York University. The rest are working newspapermen and assorted specialists. Rates range from 1½? a word for routine editing to 8? a word for articles on technical subjects requiring considerable research. They handle about 20 jobs a week and expect to gross about $100,000 this year. Their largest fee so far was $1,900 for the annual report of a corporation. Smallest was from a man in Panama who sent in a check for $5 asking for a brief and suitable expression...