Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bell Telephone demonstrators took pains to make it clear that Voder does not reproduce speech, like a telephone receiver or loudspeaker. It originates speech at the touch of an operator, synthesizing sounds to form words. The men who built it were able to do so because in their telephone researches they had made a close study of how speech sounds are made by the human larynx, mouth, breath, tongue, teeth and lips. With electrical filters, attenuators, frequency changers, etc. they found that they could produce 23 basic sounds; that intelligible speech could be synthesized from various combinations of these sounds...
Mamba's Daughters (dramatized by Dorothy & DuBose Heyward from his novel; produced by Guthrie McClintic) is not another Porgy. It equals Porgy as a document on Negro dialect and folkways, has some exciting, a few touching moments. But if Mamba's Daughters took one step more it would topple over into sheer ten-twent-thirt...
...Jordanoff told how to fly, prudently prefacing the course with lectures on the history of flying, aerodynamics and how to use a parachute. Through 27 chapters he guided the student off the ground, through rudimentary flight, and back to earth again; told him about motors, propellers, wing lift, etc. ; took off with him again for turns, climbs, glides, later for stalls and spins and aerobatics; sent him soloing; proceeding thence through discussions of "avigation," instruments, fuels, radio, accessories...
...Wall Street brokerage house of Jacquelin & De Coppet, greatly worried over what might happen to stock prices in the event of Franklin Roosevelt's death, took out in England a ?60,000 insurance policy on his life. It then deducted the premium, $23,102, from its 1933 income tax return as a business expense. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue disallowed it. So, last week, did the U. S. Board of Tax Appeals, declaring the case "wholly unique in the business history of this country...
...Jimmy Walker's henchmen and now installed in Washington with the backing of Frank R. Fageol, president of Twin Coach Co. (a bus manufacturer), suggested to Federal Coordinator of Transportation Joseph Eastman that railroad fares be "postalized." Fortnight ago Mr. Hastings popped up again with his scheme, took a full-page advertisement in the New York Times to propound it. Under "postalization," the U. S. would be divided into nine zones, and for each of five types of passenger service the same rate would be charged for travel anywhere within a given zone. Examples : New York to Albany...