Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...valuable new secret about ordinary lead, which has been kept from scientists by a peculiar feature, is that the relative proportions of the isotopes of this metal vary from sample to sample. Isotopes are atoms of the same element which differ in weight...
Another small company which quickly responded to Recovery is Allegheny Steel Co. of Brackenridge, Pa., 19th in the industry. Allegheny, whose net sales were $36,500,000 last year, makes sheet and plate steel for automobiles, electrical equipment, light-weight railroad cars; has ample equipment for turning out sheet steel, needs more facilities for making bars and quality alloys. Two years ago, Allegheny merged with West Leechburg Steel Co., practically doubled its facilities...
...Cathedral of St. John the Divine (collected to date: $283,000). To Presbyterians celebrating the 200th anniversary of the New York Presbytery he said: "We could use some more of you; we might even be glad to make some exchange of some others, for you carry a weight in the social services of this city out of all proportion to your numbers" (66,500). To Protestant members of the police force, at a communion breakfast. Mayor LaGuardia declared that he is no more radical than Jesus Christ...
...more than 200 U. S. Episcopal and Roman Catholic bishops-the most articulate shepherds of their flocks-not more than half-a-dozen in each church have spoken out against bingo games. Joining this minority last week. New York's austere Episcopal Bishop William Thomas Manning threw the weight of his office not only against bingo but against legalized lotteries, currently being considered by a convention elected to rewrite the New York State Constitution...
...appears to have been opened as result of the Supreme Court's decision in the Kansas City stockyards case. Criticizing the stockyards decision--in which he charged that the Supreme Court reversed itself--and a proposal by a "prominent corporation attorney whose opinions in the post have carried great weight in the courts" that rate making powers of Federal regulatory agencies should be transferred by Congress to the courts, Wallace said, "One year age a great battle was fought to decide whether the courts could take over the function of determining policy for the nation. This year another battle seems...