Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some press writers who have accused me of blaming Depression II on the sunspots, it is refreshing to find your comment [TIME, July 11] that in my book on sunspots I "ventured the opinion that sunspots may affect human psychology, etc." I especially appreciate your italics in the use...
...such a simple development-like putting an eraser on the end of a pencil," said Inventor Valentine. Since it costs only $200 to equip a camera with the prism, the price is negligible by Hollywood standards and Mr. Valentine expects that his improvement will come into general use...
...four days earlier, was the most foolproof private plane that ever flew. It had two radio compasses, three radio transmitters (see p. 50), three receivers. It had a Sperry gyro-pilot, a new type drift indicator, robot navigational control. It had a crew of four men trained in the use of all these instruments...
...capacity, the company cut its payroll almost in half, laid off 1,100 of its 3,600 workers, still lost about $250,000 in fiscal 1938's first six months. Most of this loss, thought President Robert Wilson Wolcott, might have been avoided had the company been using natural gas instead of coal and oil. For years Lukens has been wanting to use natural gas; for years it has been just 3¼ miles away from...
...admit it, told his foreign editor to get Boot at all costs. The editor made a natural mistake. He shipped William Boot, a quiet, untraveled, eccentric nature columnist on Lord Copper's newspaper, to Ishmaelia. There the wrong Boot found many correspondents but no war, no news, no use for folding boats, surgical instruments, Union Jack and joined flagpole with which he had been provided...