Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...used a special fast camera of a type previously used by Dr. B. F. J. Schonland, ingenious lightning observer of the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. Some years ago Dr. Schonland found that in a typical lightning flash a "leader stroke" starts from a negatively charged cloud toward the positively charged earth. The leader comes down by steps, dying out after each step, diving about 200 ft. farther with the next. Often 30 or 40 steps may be necessary before the ground is reached, but the whole descent occurs in 1/100 sec. or less. When the stepped leader...
General Food's Chairman Colby Chester, who is largely responsible for converting N. A. M. to a policy conciliatory toward the Roosevelt Administration, remains its guiding spirit as chairman of the executive committee, but on the president falls most of the active N. A. M. work. As part of it, President Hook last week made a speech in Pittsburgh. Said he: "To state that America is overproduced, overbuilt and oversold is the sheerest tommyrot. . . . The business future is currently brighter than for months because there is on the part of Congress a more sympathetic attitude toward business...
...days after Steelman Hook's remarks came an event which, on the surface, seemed to indicate a more sympathetic attitude of business toward Congress. This was a $4-a-ton cut in the price of cold rolled steel sheets, on the same day that U. S. Steel Corp. signed a new contract with Labor maintaining wages at the same level as before Only last month President Benjamin Franklin Fairless of U. S. Steel wrote the Senate Committee to Investigate Unemployment & Relief that "it is clear that prices cannot be reduced without corresponding reduction in costs, of which wages...
...double. Nor is this a lone-wolf stand. Harvard's Professor Melvin Thomas Copeland made similar predictions last fall (TIME, Oct. 4). And 82% of the 2,560 ranking U. S. economists in the American Economic Association are on record that the present U. S. trend is toward dangerous inflation of money and credit...
...long shot. Dzjunka made no secret of the fact that he gave her the creeps. And Polish noblemen disliked still more the prospect of being freed by Napoleon at the expense of his freeing their serfs. But neither of these obstacles ruffled Rasonski's cool-headed obsequiousness toward the old Count nor his heavy gallantry toward Dzjunka. Only one thing disturbed his calculations: he had really fallen in love with Dzjunka...