Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that they be marked in some way so that any one rat can quickly be singled out from all the other rats. Labels attached to the rats or marks painted on them are not entirely satisfactory. A more popular method is notching or perforating the ears according to a code. Another is cutting off various combinations of toes, or different lengths of tail. Healing and regeneration of tissue sometimes blur such labels, however, and laboratory assistants sometimes make mistakes in the code pattern...
...Science last week Psychologist Frank A. Beach Jr. of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History announced a neat solution of this minor but often troublesome problem. The solution: tattooing. Instead of using a code, ordinary numbers are electronically tattooed in the rats' ears. In this way, Dr. Beach declared, "young rats can be marked for life at the time of weaning...
Probably no group of writers or politicians has less respect for each other than the Katzenjammer Kids of the radical movement. Their polemical outbursts are juicy with accusations and counteraccusations. Almost invariably they get home safely, for good radicals, adhering to an unwritten code, usually scorn the capitalist courts. Past master at this sort of street-fighting is New York's Daily Worker, central organ of the Communist Party, U. S. A. Its most galling volleys are reserved for its rival gang, Leon Trotsky and his followers. So bitter has this battle become that unwritten codes have been forgotten...
Others besides Gardner Withrow had suggested prying into the dealer business. Year ago the National Automobile Dealers Association, to which belong 10,000 of the 45,000 U. S. dealers, petitioned FTC for a fair trade practice code. About six months before the American Finance Conference, a trade association of independent automobile finance companies, instigated a Department of Justice investigation of the trade practices of the four factory-affiliated finance companies which do 75% of the new car business. Charges of dealer coercion were presently brought against the "big four" in Milwaukee, but the case fizzled when the judge discovered...
This convention, attended by 850 dealers, was for the primary purpose of drawing up a fair trade practice code for submission to the FTC for approval and promulgation. FTCommissioner Charles H. March was on hand to help. But his place in the sun was definitely overshadowed by Gardner Withrow. With the FTC scheduled to begin its investigation of automobile monopoly five days after the N. A. D. A. convention ended, stocky, heavy-jawed Sponsor Withrow appeared in Detroit to explain it. What he had to say was the most vigorous tongue-lashing the automotive industry has had from a Congressman...