Word: probing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nobody knows how many cinemagoers there are in the U. S. Guesses range from 28 to 80 million. Nobody knows whether the cinema is a good or a bad influence. But most people agree that it is an influence of some sort. To probe the delicate question of just what sort of influence the cinema is or might be was one of the ticklish tasks tackled last week by the annual Institute of Human Relations at Williamstown, Mass...
...Freedom - FTC is charged with 1) prevention °i unfair competition, 2) enforcement of certain sections of the Clayton Anti-Trust Act, including the 1936 amendment known as the Robinson-Patman Act. It also has broad investigatory powers. Most famed FTC investigation was the eight-year probe of public utility holding companies, which netted 84 volumes of evidence and resulted in the Public Utility Act of 1935. Big as it is, touching as many phases of business as it does, FTC is only a name to the general public. It has some 550 employes, four regional offices (Chicago, San Francisco...
Informing the worried Assembly that the South African Finance Minister had been dispatched to London to "probe the question and see what can be done in order to render the position of gold more safe than it is today," General Smuts continued gloomily: "The question arises whether the time is not coming to review the new dangers emerging for gold and for the whole economic system of the world. . . . The position now is that gold hoards in the U. S. are increasing rapidly. This gold is simply locked away and is not taken into the credit system...
...again in 1919. Three years later both the Trade Commission and the Department of Justice looked into the company's purchase of a fabricating competitor. Later that year the Trade Commission started an investigation of the cooking utensil industry, which turned into a seven-year Alcoa probe. At the request of the Senate in 1926 the Department of Justice investigated to see if the company was living up to the 1912 consent decree. Alcoa affairs have also been thoroughly aired in private suits such as that of Baush Machine Tool. Yet Alcoa has always received a clean bill...
Desiring to probe scientifically into the emotional susceptibilities of unmarried women. Psychologist Raymond Royce Willoughby of Brown University decided that the best way to get information was to ask questions. He made up a list of 40 queries, 25 from the Thurstone Personality Schedule, seven from the Root introversion scale, eight added by Willoughby. Samples: "Are you self-conscious in the presence of superiors?" "At a reception do you avoid meeting the important person present?" "Are you afraid of falling when you are on a high place?" "When on vacation do you enjoy yourself better in a quiet place...