Word: would
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cultural values by illiterate Communists." Mindful that upon his research rests the behavioristic "Science of Marxism" and Marxian doctrine, the Soviet tolerates his slaps gently and without reproach, babies him. Birthday gifts from the Soviet to him include $50,000 endowment of his laboratory and an assurance that traffic would be diverted from the street near it so as not to disturb the conditioned reflexes of some six score dogs, kept there for experimental purposes...
...charity have always been unobtrusive, modest. In philanthropy he does not bunch his hits as do the Rockefellers, but scatters gifts of $100,000 or more to dozens of causes and institutions. Sometimes he gives to institutions he has never seen. Though the complete listing of the Harkness benefactions would stretch over columns, these are representative, most of them recent...
...Fords. Measured by the simple yardstick of units produced, the automobile industry would appear to be thriving. Yet while the number of cars manufactured during the first eight months of 1929 showed a 37.2% increase* over the same period last year, this was almost entirely accounted for by the phenomenal rise in Ford production. In July and August this Ford increase offset the decline shown by other manufacturers and accounted for approximately 40% of the total cars produced in the U. S. and Canada. These facts are illustrated in the following table compiled by the Wall Street Journal...
Paper. If the army of woodsmen led by mighty Paul Bunyan invaded Canada to chop down 80,000,000 cords of pulpwood, they would take so long that by the time the wood was pressed into pulp and paper new forests would have sprung up. For this reason three Canadian pulp and paper companies which combined last week estimated their 80,000,000-cord reserve as a practically perpetual supply. The companies, long closely affiliated, were Canada Power & Paper Corp. (which recently disposed of Laurentide Power Co. for $10,800,000, and is said to have placed the money...
...present locomotive which the Timken Co. has ordered from the American Locomotive Co. and will test on roads throughout the country has roller bearings on the driving and tender wheels and on the connection between the main and side rod. If successful it would make good the boast: "Throughout industry the 'impossible' has yielded to Timken design, construction and resources." To the railroads it would bring lower operating costs and the riding comfort that the public, accustomed to buying every luxury desired, is starting to demand from railroads...