Word: symbolic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most famed furniture companies in the U. S. came completely to life again after five years of coma. In central Michigan, at the dejected heart of the old line furniture industry, the idle Grand Rapids plants of Berkey & Gay had served many a Depression-worn manufacturer as a symbol of paralysis. Last week Berkey & Gay was counting orders received at its first spring furniture show since 1931 while thousands of Grand Rapids citizens, filing through its show rooms, glowed with prospects of new jobs, new business, new publicity...
...feature of the Popular Front program that stirred the most alarm was a vague proposal to nationalize the Bank of France. Founded in 1800 by Napoleon, the Bank of France is not only a sacred symbol of French capitalism; it is to an astonishing degree French capitalism itself. It is a private institution owned by more than 40,000 stockholders. Yet it holds all of France's enormous gold hoard except that privately stored in mattresses and old socks. The French Government owns not a centime of monetary metal. The Bank of France has the sole privilege of issuing...
...needed to be told. ¶At Norris, Tenn. a siren shrieked, eight sluice gates slipped shut, a lake began to form inch by inch behind the dam. In Washington 500 miles away, Franklin Roosevelt sat with his finger on the siren button, saying, "Norris Dam is a practical symbol of better life. . . ." ¶Two and a half years ago Federal Coordinator of Transportation Joseph Eastman was given the job of working out means by which railroads could cooperate to save themselves and the public money. Before his job expires next June, he is anxious to accomplish an annual saving...
...tremendously powerful approach to atomic behavior, quantum mechanics is shot through with uncertainty. It has given birth to the Uncertainty Principle of Heisenberg, which states that the position and velocity of an electron cannot be simultaneously ascertained. In the Schrödinger wave mechanics, the little symbol ψ is important. It stands, roughly, for statistical probability. Instead of locating the electron, it locates a region in which the electron probably occurs...
...members of the chamber got ready to laugh. To the uniniated it looked like what the Radcliffe girl tried to throw across the Charles but the Governor said that wasn't the answer and the Chamber shook their heads. "No, no, my boy, that's the symbol of the Boosevelt administration" and the crowded Council Room guffawed, but the Governor told him to keep the dollar so the reporter smiled...