Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from his California Industrial Union Council, charged that he was nesting with Communists. "We believe," said they, "that any one has a right to be a Communist or a Holy Roller or whatever they choose, but . . . they must give their first loyalty to their unions and not attempt to use the unions to further the end of any political party...
...Officials of the Jewish War Veterans of the U. S., in Detroit to arrange their national convention, declined an offer from Ford Motor Co. of automobiles for the use of delegates, called on Henry Ford to reject the Supreme Order of the German Eagle awarded him by Hitler's Reich last fortnight on his 75th birthday. (Same day, Mr. Ford & wife sailed on a lake freighter for a month at his Huron Mountain estate near Marquette, Mich...
...Robert Ley, leader of the German Labor Front, bubbled with enthusiasm, even foresaw the use of People's Cars as Nazi baby buggies: "Within ten years every German who works will or can be the owner of a KdF car. No manna falls from heaven! If you want socialistic advantages you must work for them. National Socialism is not weakly but manly Socialism! We hope the KdF car will even raise the German birth rate by encouraging German families to have four or five children to fill it. ... This very year the first section of the KdF factory, which...
...four companies pooled their patents under The Polymerization Process Corp., which leases the process. Last fall Phillips Pete put up two massive polymerization units at Kansas City and Borger, Texas, baffled the oil world by turning out 100 octane gas in quantity too great for any known U. S. use. All Chairman Frank Phillips will say is that "the total output is being sold abroad to a foreign government." Eventually, Oilman Phillips expects automobile engines to be adapted to use 100 octane fuel...
...this year they will make 28, two a week, with the Nordmeer, Nordwind and Nordstern, all Hamburg Ha. 1395 with four Diesel engines, a catapult start, and a payload of only 880 Ib. Lufthansa would like to start flying mail any day now, but it has been allowed to use Pan American's sea base at Port Washington only if it waits till Pan American can match it flight for flight...