Word: roome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Delighted with this cinema report not only on the U. S. No. 1 medical controversy but on laboratory, office, sickroom and operating room procedures, the heads of the A. M. A. broke their 16 min. 40 sec. silence, voted the A. M. A.'s first official endorsement of a commercial moving picture: "The Board of Trustees of the A. M. A. expresses sincere appreciation of the MARCH OF TIME'S Men of Medicine-1938 as excellent educational material revealing advance of medical science and service of medical science to the sick...
...Last week Eastern railway passenger travel suddenly got Flashed up when two of the nation's most famous trains, New York Central's Twentieth Century Limited and Pennsylvania's Broadway Limited, were streamlined to the last rivet and brake beam and made into the first all-room Pullman trains...
...Century and Broadway are composed of company-owned baggage and public cars coupled with matching all-room sleepers built by Pullman Co. Each has eight all-room Pullmans, accommodations including snug roomettes, single and double bedrooms, compartments, drawing rooms. Each has two diners. The Century's, informal but sober, stick to rust tones and grey. The Broadway's, more splendiferous, have a speak-easy style midsection with side-seat nooks. Each has a bar-lounge, the Century's, mannish, leathery, the Broadway's, like an intimate cocktail room...
...Wood attended a demonstration in Nancy, surreptitiously removed and replaced the prism in a darkened room, succeeded in showing up the rays as a hoax. The scientific excitement about them subsided with extreme rapidity...
...Sioux City, five minutes before the polls closed in Iowa's primary election, Guildsmen in the Tribune sat down in the news room and in the Woodbury County election precincts in which they had been stationed. Within 80 minutes, a contract was signed. Among its provisions: Guild shop for editorial and business office employes, no discharges for economy for four months, vacations with pay after one year's service. Wage schedules, which the Guild refused to incorporate in the contract, were posted on the bulletin board. Typical wages: for reporters less than six months $16, after six months...