Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...formal appropriation by Germany would be almost irreparable to Lithuania. But Lithuania had some friends left, however ineffective. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain told the House of Commons that the French and British Embassies in Berlin had been instructed to express the official hope that the German Government "will use its influence to insure respect" for the 1924 Memel Statute finally giving the district to Lithuania...
...first year was included in the Old Bauhaus exhibition. Walter Gropius made it plain that he thought his friend had been gypped, his cherished school nipped in the bud. Said he: "What has been done to Moholy makes me very sad. I will not let the Chicago Association use the Bauhaus name for its own advantage...
Parent of fluid drive is the hydraulic turbine principle, almost as old as the automobile itself, but until recently not made efficient. Already in use in the British Daimler's "fluid flywheel," it is also the basis for hydraulic transmissions being installed this year by General Motors on 150 busses. The General Motors adaptation replaces not only the clutch, but all transmission gears except reverse, relieving the bus driver of the job of clutching and shifting gears in ordinary stop-and-go operation, making less harried the task of driving, opening and closing doors and collecting fares...
...depressions, balance the budget, insure maximum employment and raise the standard of living is to increase the nation's production of wealth; therefore, taxes should be graduated to penalize companies which do not operate at full capacity, banks which do not employ their funds, landowners who do not use their land...
There are three methods of automotive patent use; one exemplified by Ford, another by Packard, the third by practically everybody else. Ford grants royalty-free license of its patents to anyone. Packard charges and pays royalties. Chrysler, General Motors and all other big manufacturers subscribe to the Automobile Manufacturers' Association's cross-licensing agreement, granting free interchange of all patents taken out before...