Word: unitedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should never go into the mines. He never did. After high school he taught until he had some money saved, then went off to study engineering at the College of Wooster and Ohio Northern University. Up, up, up the industrial ladder he climbed-vice president & general manager of United Alloy Co. at 36, president of Central Alloy Steel Corp. soon thereafter, executive vice president of Republic Steel at 40. Finally, at 45, the boy from Pigeon Run became president of Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp., biggest steel-producing unit in the world, biggest subsidiary of colossal U. S. Steel Corp...
...Dirac then proposed to construct a new universe out of the leftovers. He had noticed that another scientist of imagination, Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, had arrived at theoretical values for certain constants, such as the quantity of matter in the universe (using the proton as a unit) and the ratio of the electric to the gravitational force between proton and electron. These two Eddington values worked out at 10 78 (10 multiplied by itself 77 times) and 10 39 . Although, as Dirac says, "Eddington's arguments are not always rigorous," they nevertheless gave him "the feeling that they...
...Amoskeag mills at Manchester, New Hampshire, once the largest, textile unit in the world, formerly employed eight thousand men. Terribly hit by the depression and southern competition, the mills were just getting back on their feet when labor troubles set in. Now only fifteen hundred of those eight thousand are being employed, by Pacific Mills, and Lewis says he is out to help these fifteen hundred. If he really has the interest of the workers at heart, let him regard the deserted buildings of the once great. Amoskeag Company as a grim reminder of what can happen...
...question of the Mandolin Club was settled simply by determining to continue the unit if sufficient mandolin players were interested. If enough men are found forthcoming, it is planned to organize a string ensemble to take its place...
...TIME, June 8), A. T. & T. showed $9.35 per share. The Bell System as a whole took in $994,000,000 from operations, about two-thirds on local service, one-third on long distance. Other income amounted to $28,864,000, contributed largely by Western Electric Co., the equipment unit. Meantime the number of telephones had climbed back to within 740,000 of the all-time high. The year, wrote President Gifford, had been one of progress "in which the public, the employes and the stockholders all shared...