Word: traced
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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About 70 combines daily were rolling off the production line last week and the U. S. correspondents were shown no trace of the "sabotage and wrecking by Trotskyists" attributed by the Old Bolsheviks trial to Rostov. Everything was going beautifully except that neither the First nor Second Five-Year Plan has yet shown Plant Manager Kartsashev how to deal with snow. In Rostov is now the largest theatre in Soviet Russia, typical of the diffusion of entertainment to the masses in which Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini are at one with the principles of President Roosevelt's WPA theatres. Cried...
Historically Power goes back to Edison, Ohm and Faraday to trace the origins of the force it presents as a maladministered boon. Technically it begins with the definition of a kilowatt hour ("When this thousand-watt bulb burns for an hour, that's a kilowatt hour"). From then on, by means of a pedagogical disembodied Voice, cartoon and scenic lantern slides, motion pictures and dialog between fictional and actual characters, Power grows into a loud and lively indictment of the U. S. power business's many frauds and follies. By taking stock shares out of one pocket...
...large campuses have little groups of earnest and not badly informed serious thinkers bewildering themselves about the modern world, but their influence on the tone of the campus is as narrow as that of the local Phi Beta Kappa. . . . There is hardly a trace of it in the Mississippi Valley...
...Hoffman, who on the side is president and half-owner of York Oil Burner Co., maintains that Mr. Atlas' "dynamic tension" is "dynamic hooey." Pressed for a definition of "hooey" at FTC hearings last spring, Mr. Hoffman with no hesitation explained that he had traced the word back to the Phoenicians "about 4,000 years before the Flood, not the recent Pennsylvania flood, but the Bible Flood." Then the word "hooey" meant "hoof." "In times of famine," continued Mr. Hoffman, ''it became necessary to eat all the parts of an animal. These parts were ground up into...
...steam railroad mileage was in the hands of the courts. "Poor financial structures and unwise surplus and dividend policies were chiefly responsible for the failure of some of these companies and were contributing factors in the failure of most of them," observed the Commissioners. Many a road could trace its grief to the fact that it was "handicapped from the beginning by financial structures overloaded with funded debt which was not reduced in good times." To assure more provident procedure in the future. I. C. C. had adopted the policy of insisting upon sinking funds in all railroad reorganization plans...