Word: unsoundness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inconvenience in the United States every year according to Dr. Miller McClintock, director of the Albert Russel Erskine Bureau for Street Traffic Research which is financed by the Studebaker motor car company. Much of this loss is due to traffic stop signals which have been constructed either on an unsound engineering basis or without the justification of acute traffic conditions. Moving vans and commercial vehicles whose runs cost five cents a minute, and more, as well as pleasure vehicles are being blocked in some localities by signals that are 100 per cent inefficient...
...independent and coordinated. The independent lights change at fixed intervals or may be changed by electrical contact caused by a car approaching the intersection. Coordinated lights are controlled in relation to other lights and may be simultaneous or progressive. Simultaneous lights are used in New York, but are technically unsound because they result in a high moving speed and a slow overall rate. The progressive lights as they are used on Washington Street in Boston are theoretically ideal and permit a quick and continuous flow of traffic...
...brutal antagonism, now, according to Green, this antagonism is more subtle sometimes taking the form of rival or "company" unions, mands of the unions have strangled the New England textile industry in the face of low wage competition from the South, Green replied that the textile business was economically unsound at the time and that unorganized labor conditions in the South brought about wage cutting, price slashing and unfair competition. The payment of low wages, he pointed out, failed to revive the industry...
...hasty survey is reassuring. In the last election the Socialist candidate in the 17th District polled some 1,600 out of something over 60,000* votes cast. . . . That Broun is running on a so-called Socialist ticket seems ... of no importance. The Telegram is opposed to Marxian Socialism ... as unsound and impractical. But . . . the Telegram has no fear of the 'mercerized' socialism of independent thinkers of the type of Norman Thomas and Heywood Broun. . . . Theirs is Socialism in name only. . . . Meantime, Broun will continue to write for the Telegram...
...really cannot take the letter seriously," declared Mr. Forbes, "since it contained nothing that could be actually construed as a threat of violence. I suppose it came from some person of unsound mind who read about the purchase of the painting by the Museum and resented that so much money should be spent on anyone or anything but himself. I merely turned it over to the Harvard police to clear myself of any responsibility in the matter. I do not think that anyone in their right mind could resent the legitimate purchase of a priceless work...