Word: sec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...struck in the breast by a copper pellet no bigger than a pinhead, which killed her. Investigation showed that the pellet had come from a detonator, no doubt left in the coal by a miner; that such detonators not only hurl a pellet at 6,000 ft. per sec. (three times the speed of a rifle bullet) but throw hundreds of minute shreds of copper, each able to penetrate nearly a millimetre of brass sheet. Pellets from detonators, directed into jars of water, shatter the jars by the pressure wave in the water. As evidence that modern high explosives...
...Presidential and Congressional elections. If they attempt to throw the weight of the united organizations behind one of the major parties, they will alienate large numbers of their supporters. On the other hand, if they continue their present policy of remaining aloof from partisan issues, it is difficult to sec how the move can be checked. By organizing the electorate in the districts, by focussing attention on the attitude of the representative towards the Townsend Plan, they can exert a measure of power whose weight was vividly demonstrated by the Anti-Saloon League...
...tribunal was the claim that publication of sales figures would give competitors a clue to Canco's profit margins, thus precipitating price wars which would ruin little can companies. Last week, sitting in Philadelphia, Judge Joseph Whitaker Thompson granted Canco's plea for a temporary injunction against SEC pending further arguments, this time on the constitutionality of the Securities Exchange Act. Only other pending challenge of the 1934 Act was filed recently by Pittsburgh's Mesta Machine, builder of steelmaking machinery...
...ceased buying, the bottom would have dropped out of the market for steel shares. Had that happened the Securities & Exchange Commission would have descended on Morgan & Co. with severe reproaches. When Secretary Morgenthau suddenly ceased buying in quantity in the London silver market last week, there was no international SEC to crack down on him but silver men the world over had plenty...
...this situation Harvard's new President James Bryant Conant organized some makeshift expedients. The Business School put in a special course to train men for such governmental business ventures as the TVA, such regulatory bodies as the SEC (TIME, Feb. 4). The government department and Law School devised special programs. What was needed, however, was a separate graduate school. Last week Harvard got one. The public-spirited donor, found after 30 years of search, was Lucius Nathan Littauer...