Word: successes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suspicious. Other Negroes fought the union for a price. By 1929 the union had gained A. F. of L. Federal charters, but recognition from Pullman was not forthcoming. President Randolph carried his case to the old Board of Mediation, to the Interstate Commerce Commission, to a Federal Court. First success came in 1934 when the Railway Labor Act was amended, outlawing company unions, guaranteeing collective bargaining and-at the behest of President Randolph-bringing porters within the scope of the law. Membership jumped, and the next year when the National Mediation Board held an election the Brotherhood beat a reorganized...
While studying under Mexican Muralist Diego Rivera, Manhattan Artist Elizabeth Ely de Vescovi Whitman met a Mexican chemist, Gonzalez de la Vega, founder of the faculty of chemical sciences at the University of Mexico, who shared her interest in experiments at keeping frescoes fresh. First sign of success in their collaboration came when they used a spray of glycerine, lime, marble dust and water. But no matter how little glycerine they used it would appear later in small beads on the surface of the plaster. Then they tried butyl alcohol (butanol) with the same ingredients. This worked, but made...
...penetrate the female ovum, the get is a boy; if an x-chromosome, it is a girl. Thus Professor Crew reasoned the shorter life expectancy of the male seems to be carried on a gene or genes in the y-chromosome. By delicate manipulations, geneticists have had some success in separating male and female elements in mammalian sperm, opening the prospect of sex control in human reproduction-provided the parents will submit to artificial insemination by sperm from which one element or the other has been removed...
...weak. Yet the European stockmarkets showed no similar apprehension. Markets in Paris and London declined but never approached a break.* As for the French franc, which sank to 3.53½ cents, lowest since 1926, the logical explanation was the fact that the Chautemps-Bonnet Government has had as little success as the Blum Cabinet in bolstering France's perennial financial position-clearly indicated last week by an inflationary Bank of France statement showing: 1) the highest note circulation in French history and 2) that the Government had once more dipped into central bank reserves...
Back in the U. S. the alert Bowman went into the coffee-roasting business, impulsively sold out when it occurred to him that candy lozenges like Life Savers would be a great success if flavored with coffee. Intending to work out his idea at the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research in Pittsburgh, he was surprised to learn that it had been tried before, was hopeless. But Bowman was getting nearer to his destined specialty. On his way to Detroit to take a job in an automobile plant, he met a chewing-gum salesman who was working the ''butcher...