Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...order was repeatedly commanded by Chairman Senor Aristines Aguero y Betancourt of Cuba. He, popular in Berlin, as the suave, easy-going Cuban Minister, conducted the soth League Council session at Geneva, Switzerland, with vigor, tact, address. Small Cuba sat metaphorically enthroned over the Powers due to a system of alphabetical rotation which lifts up each nation in turn to the League's High Chai...
Star gazers in Germany have sat comfortably back in their planetaria (TIME, Feb. 13) and watched the earth move round the sun, the solar system gyrate. A lecturer has stood beside a colossal intricate mechanism, a steel cylindrical apparatus about 25 feet long with a great steel sphere at each end, bulbous with electric eyes. These were the stars and planets; each with its own motor to send it through any. desired orbit. Upon the huge domed ceiling, 75 feet across, the professor could project the sky as it looked to three shepherds of Judea on a certain cold night...
...Paul Jablochkov, invented the arc light in 1876; Thomas Edison the incandescent light in 1879. In 1881 Thomas Edison opened the first public electric supply station. And only five years later Tokyo, for more than two centuries secluded from European and U. S. science, also had its electric light system. The Tokyo Electric Light Co. was the innovation. It first served current for 75 lamps...
Although the company 42 years ago served current to only 75 lights, last year it manufactured and purchased 2,614,978,628 kilowatt hours of current. In the U. S. only three companies-Buffalo, Niagara & Eastern Power Corp. System, the Commonwealth Edison Co. and the New York Edison Co. System-surpassed it. The Tokyo company serves 11,395 sq. mi. across the most populous and highly developed midsection of Nippon, Japan's main island. In the territory are Tokyo (population 2,000,000) where the imperial government sits, Yokohama the seaport, and a great hinterland of rice fields, silkworm...
When the plaint of tobacco jobbers and retailers reached President George J. Whelan of the Union Tobacco Co.-that they were not making a living margin of profit on tobacco sales-President Whelan set up a smart system of selling them goodwill as well as tobacco. The system, as developed last week, is to give Union Tobacco stock shares to jobbers and retailers in proportion to their purchases. For every $1,000 of Union Tobacco goods a jobber buys he is to get one certificate of Union Tobacco stock worth nominally $30. That is a 3% bonus. For every...