Word: inspection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another source of employment for veterinarians is the U. S. Bureau of Animal Industry, whose men inspect meat both on the hoof and in slaughter houses. All these inspectors are graduates of recognized veterinary colleges. Last week the Chief of the Bureau, Dr. John Robbins Mohler, who is celebrating his fortieth year in the service and who is one of the biggest employers of veterinarians on earth (800), went to Omaha to boast that "the U. S. has become the safest country in the world in which to engage in breeding and raising domestic animals...
...secretary who can telephone them back to city hall while he is speaking. An hour later he may be back at his office to see a queue of people who have been waiting for hours, interview a deputy commissioner, perform a marriage for an eager friend, rush off to inspect a swimming pool, a hospital, a ferryboat or a street accident...
...Next morning he was in Hyde Park to inspect a new firebreak in his woods, letting newshawks know that his 560-acre tract adjoining his mother's estate is not a gentleman farmer's operation run at a loss which he can deduct on his income tax return (as suggested by his district's Republican Congressman Hamilton Fish), but a timber operation (cordwood, fence posts, Christmas trees) on which he should realize a small profit. With him on this weekend was Author Emil Ludwig, biographer of the great, whose next subject is Franklin Roosevelt...
...Metropolitan last week, critics and gallery-goers had a chance to inspect The Hunt together with the 16 other contemporary U. S. paintings acquired this year with the Hearn funds. Already on view were such old hands as Edward Hopper, Bernard Karfiol, Max Weber, Louis Eilshemius, Augustus Vincent Tack. For the first time appeared equally well-known George Biddle, William Glackens, vigorous, self-taught Joe Jones of Missouri, Henry Botkin, Robert Brackman, Alexander James, Sidney Laufman, Henry E. Mattson, Paul Sample, Louis Bouche. Showgoers lifted most surprised eyebrows when they beheld Doris Lee's Catastrophe, which showed a Zeppelin...
...group for 50 years. With primitive equipment the Austins were quietly digging out $500 per day when Herbert Hoover suddenly put them on the national mining map last summer. Out of "purely geologic curiosity" the great engineer journeyed across the Sierras from his home in Palo Alto to inspect the Jumbo, was greatly impressed, advised the Austins to hang on (TIME, Aug. 31). George Austin announced that he would not sell at any price. Discovery of unsuspected veins last autumn added to Jumbo's lustre, touched off a local boom in surrounding territory...