Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...working conditions. Much more is demanded of the economic system today. ... I know of no formula and of no program by which such objectives can be obtained in a social system which is as complex as our own. It may be possible for the Russians, who have started from zero, to build up a satisfactory social system by centralized initiative. We have no right to prejudice them. . . . [But] while the Russians may be building a very modern house on very modern foundations, they are building their house on a vacant lot; we have to reconstruct our old house while...
...Empress is 28) by Western reckoning; but Japanese hold that everyone is a year old at birth. Japanese think it queer that, since everyone has unquestionably been alive for some time before birth, Westerners cling to the obvious absurdity of reckoning a newborn babe as of zero...
...Chicago, last December, John F. Barrett, stockbroker (John F. Barrett & Co.), bet his friends that there would not be an official temperature reading as low as zero in Chicago before March 1. He won $1,250. His system: "For years I have been using the wind direction on Ember days as a basis on which to forecast. The Ember days, you know, were named as movable dates for prayer and fasting by the Council of Placentia in 1095. When the December Ember days came, the wind was, over the period, predominantly from the East. As the eastern part...
Altitude. A scarlet-and-cream Lockheed-Vega, with handsome Socialite Ruth Nichols at the controls, roared into the sky over Manhattan, settled into a steady climb of nearly an hour's duration. A thermometer on the wing stopped registering at 45° below zero. A high west wind blew the ship backwards, nearly five miles out to sea. Miss Nichols, breathing oxygen that nearly froze her tongue, forced the ship higher and higher until fuel was exhausted, descended with an apparent altitude record for women (subject to confirmation) of more than 30,000 ft. Existing record...
...shareholders are liable for Royal Mail debts. Frightened investors began selling the common, which had climbed above £7 last year for ten shillings a share. Down went the price to one shilling. Then an unprecedented thing for so great a company occurred: a large block changed hands at zero. The owner paid the transfer tax, making the sale actually below zero. By the close of the day the common was back at five shillings. But the once gilt-edge 6½% preferred which had been at 60 shillings in the morning did not rally, closed the day at the ignoble...