Word: totalizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Presidential press conferences are usually a bore. What happens is that a group of 100 or more reporters gather in the White House press room, stand around chatting with each other until thoroughly exhausted. Thus reduced to a state of total psychic subservience, they are ushered into Franklin Roosevelt's private sanctum. Here the President, comfortably tucked in under a massive desk and surrounded by a background of secretaries and Secret Service men, sits flourishing his cigaret holder. The correspondents gather closely around the front of the desk trying politely to look as though all this were a marvel...
...announced the results of clairvoyance tests made with Margery, using the honor cards of an ordinary deck.* In the first series of 25 she got 22 right. In the second, all 25 right. In the third, 24 out of 25. In the fourth, all 25. Total score...
...Loeb's arboreal monstrosities lay on the docks of Portland's Oceanic Terminal, the Pacific Northwest forest experiment station announced that as many burls were exported in 1937 as in 1936, despite the fact that northwest lumber exports as a whole were off by half. Total burl production, including those going to domestic veneer manufacturers and those sent to New York by rail before being shipped to Europe, was 1,500 tons...
...placental blood immediately upon birth, found-as he announced in this month's Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics-that it can be stored indefinitely and that it is "a safe, constant, efficient and lucrative source of blood for transfusions." Estimating the recovery of four ounces of blood per delivery, the total saving of blood in U. S. childbirths would aggregate some 60,000 gal. per year...
...Forty Days of Musa Dagh, Franz Werfel wrote a novel that was at once an account of an extraordinary military operation, a story of a successful resistance to tyranny, a tribute to simple religious fervor. Containing more heavily mystical passages than most best-sellers (total sales 158,000 copies), it made up for them with excellent descriptions of well-planned, hard-fought, hand-to-hand battles. Moreover, it had the inherent excitement of a struggle in which a hopelessly outnumbered force decides to fight, turns on its enemy and wins...