Word: used
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bench. A San Francisco barkeeper named Clarence Bent testified that he was the go-between in Mark Megladdery's bribe-taking. Frank Merriam bumbled that he had heard rumors about his secretary, had not believed them. He also confirmed the report that he once told Mark Megladdery to use State funds to pay $150 in back taxes for Sister Ann Merriam, who runs a private school in Los Angeles. (According to testimony, Secretary Megladdery thought it "would not look good," paid instead with a rubber check, and Miss Merriam eventually ponied up for herself.) Mark Megladdery already had admitted...
...phase of the investigation concerns Teachers College's management of Lincoln's G. E. B. endowment. Terms of the grant leave T. C. free to use the money as it sees fit for experiments in elementary and secondary education. But Lincoln's parents and Dr. Flexner hold T. C. to be morally bound to use it for Lincoln School. They were shocked to learn that T. C. had spent part of the endowment for research not connected with the school, for salaries of professors nominally but not actually on Lincoln's staff. It was estimated that...
Besides having acquired a considerable reputation as a motormaker and collector of antiques, Henry Ford looms very large in the U. S. "chemurgic" movement, which explores and promotes industrial use of agricultural products. Example: use of casein, a compound which occurs in milk, to make plastics and fabrics. Another of Mr. Ford's preoccupations is soybeans, which can be grown cheaply almost anywhere, yield oil for automobile lacquers, meal for plastic parts like horn buttons. Incidentally, soybeans are nutritious and soybean preparations figure prominently in Mr. Ford's present diet...
...fabric, the rest of silk and wool. Protein is extracted from soybean meal in saline solution, then mixed with other chemicals to make a viscous liquid, which is squirted into hair-sized filaments. The spun thread has a pleasant feel, fairly good tensile strength, takes dyes readily. Its intended use: automobile upholstery...
...Star had been given the use of the Winnipeg Free Press's newsstands for the day. A special plane had left Minneapolis, 435 miles to the south, loaded down with copies of the early edition. Under an eight-column headline the Star played the story, written in advance, which it had worked so hard to promote...