Word: takings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...skittish about the sort of religious programs they put on the air. Last year, before Easter, a religious drama was submitted to NBC which gave its executives quite a turn. Called The Living God, translated from the French of Cita and Suzanne Mallard, the program attempted to take its hearers back to Jerusalem during the last days of Jesus Christ, whose Passion and Resurrection were supposedly broadcast by an announcer with a portable microphone. Even in a toned-down version this drama scared NBC. But when it was finally broadcast in Holy Week, under the auspices of the National Council...
...Imperial's present printed instruction: "Lap straps. . . . Use is optional. . . . Company recommends that they shall be used . . . during take-offs and alighting. . . . If you wish to use . . . ask the Flight Clerk...
Northwestern's new institute will be conducted on this cooperative plan, whereby students spend equal periods studying in the school and working in industry, take five years to complete the course, will be virtually assured of a job when they finish. Offering civil, mechanical, electrical and chemical engineering courses, the institute will open in September 1940, eventually accommodate 800 students...
...family doctor is indispensable to the community and the nation . . . nine times out of ten he is as well able to handle a case as the specialist is; and . . . if the profession does not take care, the family doctor will vanish. . . . The medical profession, by its drift toward specialization, is handing the family doctor his hat and showing him the door. At the same time, we the general practitioners are implored to stay, but we cannot long survive the economic competition with superspecialism. It is a vicious circle...
...teacher in Philadelphia, mortally fears Jews, radicals, labor leaders. To defend herself, she used to carry two guns, a six-shooter in her handbag, an automatic strapped to her leg under her skirt. Once she brandished a pistol in a newsman's face, declared: "Those Communists will never take me alive." Disarmed by the Board of Education, she hired two bodyguards, scattered scarehead pamphlets by the thousands, tried to break up meetings of "Reds," invited teachers to join an "American National Socialist Party." Last week her pupils at West Philadelphia High decided Miss Burchett had gone too far, walked...