Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they heard this familiar greeting from the President of the U. S. For the second time Franklin Roosevelt was "reporting" to the country from the White House. Eight weeks prior when "the country was dying by inches" his first broadcast on the banking crisis had been a historic success. His second attempt to clear and steer the public mind on issues of state produced a popular reaction no less favorable. President Roosevelt's speech, simple and sympathetic, was more than a review of his two months in office, more than a recitation of the purposes of his Civilian Conservation...
...week William Edward Levis gave signs of introducing another revolution to the bottle business, vertical integration of a new kind: Owens-Illinois having acquired a 40,000-share interest in National Distillers Products, Mr. Levis became a director of that company. Great, considering Depression, has been Mr. Levis' success with bottles. Depression cut Owens-Illinois' profits from $4,451,000 in 1929 to $2,067,000 last year, but this year what Prohibition took away it has partly given back. Three weeks before beer became legal Owens-Illinois' orders already amounted to 55,000,000 bottles. Last...
Year and a half ago Eastern Air Transport equipped one of its passenger planes with the Sperry "robot" pilot, a gyroscopic device which automatically keeps a plane on a set course (TIME. Oct. 19, 1931). In principle it was a success. But just as a human novice may fly a plane safely but clumsily, the robot pilot was awkward. Its worst fault was the same as the common fault of the human: slamming the controls this way & that. Besides jerking the ship about, it strained the controls. Since the robot first appeared, Sperry engineers and airline operators have been busy...
...going nicely, just as his latest flirtation was beginning to grow serious, his grown-up daughter turned up to plague him. At first he thought Lindsay a credit to him: she was not beautiful but she had charm, wit, sophistication, and she was on the verge of a big success in the musi-comedy world. They took to each other on sight, but Carl rapidly discovered his daughter was a little too clever for his comfort. It was bad enough when she trapped him into giving her unattractive young half-sister a horribly boring day-long birthday treat; but when...
...obvious, of course, that this undertaking cannot be a success unless it has the support and cooperation of students and teachers in the field of economics. We are most anxious to have contributions of articles or shorter notes for publication from the advanced students and younger economists at Harvard; and we are also anxious to extend our circulation so as to include as many American economists as possible. The subscription charge for one year has been set at 7 shillings (about $1.40 at present rates of exchange...