Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Someone remarked that Mr. Ford seemed to have enjoyed his White House visit. Said Mr. Ford: "You never heard me say anything against him, did you? What's the use, what's the use? He's like all the rest of us, trying to do the best he can. Don't you think...
...with certain violations, such as presenting identical bids, uniform price raises; 2) more careful scrutiny of mergers and interlocking relationships; 3) supervision of investment trusts and gradual separation of banks from holding companies; 4) supervision and publicizing of activities of trade associations; 5) amendment of patent laws to prevent use of patent controls for suppression of new inventions; 6) correction of tax laws to encourage competition and dividend distribution. To top all this the President also suggested that Congress consider creating a Bureau of Industrial Economics, modeled on the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, to keep business informed on supply...
...black-hatted, black-witted Wyndham Lewis (The Apes of God) turned up as a critic at the Academy's socialite preview and enjoyed himself among the stiff Coronation portraits. Artist John's resignation, said he, had dealt the Academy a mortal blow, "if it is possible to use the expression 'mortal blow' with reference to a corpse...
Chief U. S. authority on electric eels is Christopher W. Coates, head curator of Manhattan's Aquarium. Curator Coates last week told scientists in Washington that the eels may furnish a clue for electric anesthesia that might be better than the chemical anesthesia now in use. Ingenious Ichthyologist Coates has already found a practical use for these fantastic fish. For years the Manhattan Aquarium was chivied by large river rats that invaded it during the winter. The rats would climb to the top of tanks, snatch fish out, eat them. Dr. Coates bought a few cats, but they preferred...
During the last two successive nights the old-fashioned pump has got mysteriously out of order. Yard cops prefer to think that the trouble is caused by its over-use rather than malicious sabotage...