Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louis he was less exclusive. Beneath the vast smoky vault of the Union Station he met newshawks. On silver, inflation, other issues he had "no thoughts." Did he like being Vice President less than being Speaker of the House? A nostalgic gleam came into the blue Garner eye. "I could have told you something then," said he, "for I knew what was going on. But now I don't. However, after being in Washington a few days I may get the slant of things, and might be able to talk-but not for publication. My chief does that...
...telescope, equal in magnifying power to an instrument equipped with a 2,000-inch mirror, were outlined by Dr. Francois Henroteau of Ottawa's Dominion Observatory. The projected telescope will be electrical, not optical. Dr. Henroteau and his aides have discovered how to deposit 25,000,000 minuscule silver dots on a square inch of thin mica plate. Starlight falling on the silvered mica will be scanned by photoelectric cells, which will convert the image into feeble electric current, which in turn will be amplified tremendously by three-electrode vacuum tubes. The result will be a photograph clear enough...
This celebration is to mark a silver anniversary, not of one great impresario but of a mammoth corporation, with $285,000,000 working capital, with 75 affiliated and subsidiary companies, with 350,000 stockholders, 125,000 employes. To the corporation and not to individual executives goes the credit of making one third of all the world's automobiles on its twenty-fifth birthday. A similar change has come over Ford. Henry Ford still rules Ford Motor Co. but he no longer is Ford Motor Co. He says "Yes" and "No," but Edsel Ford, Charles Sorensen, Peter Martin, William Cowling...
...Harvard Economics Department (de facto) and the banks versus the Columbia Economics department (de jure) and the Roosevelt legend, I cannot help but conclude that the latter group has kept more than one step ahead of the former by conjuring up a lot of cardboard windmills, notably gold buying, silver buying, and in a sense, even the N. R. A. itself, to divert the attention of the "conservative" opposition while the really important recovery measures are being taken...
...Saturday and should be mailed to E. H. Lane, 801 Barristers Hall, Boston. An entrance fee of 50 cents may accompany the application or may be paid at the door on the day of the competition. Colleges from all over New England are expected to send delegates and gold, silver and bronze medals will be awarded. An individual competition for novices will be held in foils...