Word: solids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Among solid bits of testimony likely to help FCC get its money were: ¶On rentals of some 13.000,000 telephones to its 23 associated operating companies from 1902 to 1927, A. T. & T. made no less than $50,000,000 and, by one method of computation, $216,000,000 above a 6% return on investment. Rental charges were included in a general charge of 4½% of operating company revenues ''for engineering, financial and legal service." In 1927 A. T. & T. sold the telephones to the operating companies for $38,000,000, making...
Tobacco was picked for this first experiment largely because it is not a major U. S. crop and most of it is grown on solid Democratic soil. Then, too, though there are about ten important tobacco States, not more than four control any one of the various distinct types of this crop...
Dictator Kamâl Atatürk has made a point for years of groaning bitterly about the demilitarized Dardanelles at every crisis in international affairs. Meanwhile he has quietly lined the Straits with solid highways interspersed with concrete "parking spaces" behind earth embankments. Down these roads could roll at a few hours notice heavy tractor field-pieces, to unlimber at the parking spaces and command the Straits. With all this in his favor, Kamâl Atatürk last fortnight felt he could afford to wangle a remilitarized Dardanelles the legal...
Manipulation of a security is forbidden by law, though just what constitutes manipulation has not yet been defined. Pegging operations ("stabilization"') are subject to SEC rules & regulations, which have not yet been issued. In this legal swamp Lehman wanted to be on ground as solid as possible...
Explosive from Corn, Professor Edward Bartow, president of the American Chemical Society, has 25 lb. of inositol which he keeps locked in a safe at University of Iowa. Inositol is an alcohol which occurs exiguously in the seeds of certain plants. Treated with nitric acid it forms a solid substance about twice as explosive as dynamite. Inositol has been so difficult to extract that only about 5 lb. are produced annually and the price is $500 per lb. Professor Bartow and his able associate, Dr. W. W. Walker, found a way to extract inositol from the water in which corn...