Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Among the revolutionary features which made Commissioner Lang question the Community Church: its cantilever construction, which made the weight load appear too heavy for the footings and foundations; its heating pipes set in the floor, instead of visible radiators, its steel-&-gunite walls. Such walls have never before been built-they are made of steel props interwoven with flexible laths of steel and paper, on which is sprayed gunite (cement shot from guns)-the whole only 2¼-in. thick. Architect Wright's plan for the Johnson Wax plant at Racine, Wis. in 1938 similarly set the Wisconsin State...
...question, "Is too much importance placed on education these days?" 73% said "No." Of the 21% who said "Yes," half complained that education was not sufficiently practical...
...unemployment that was not Government's fault. This was the old Brookings Institution thesis: that industry itself had failed in many instances to expand its markets (and payrolls) by reducing prices. With this thesis a significant majority agreed wholly (16.2%) or in part (49%). Pinned down to the question of whether decreased prices in depression industries would have upped volume sufficiently to reduce layoffs, 27.2% answered yes, 35.4% perhaps, 37.4% no. Of the yes-men, one-fifth thought the increased volume would have boosted profits, 46.7% felt they would have remained the same, 29.5% thought they would have increased...
...trustee held two clubs: 1) possible recovery from a negligence suit, 2) such a suit's publicity. To a negligence suit, Price, Waterhouse might have made an air-tight technical defense. They had been given full, if bogus, documentation for everything they certified. There was not the remotest question of complicity. Said Price, Waterhouse to Wardall: "We were victims of the same fraud...
...Sophomore, will make a fine 220 team, and Curwen will probably double in the 440. Another Sophomore, Frank Gorman, stands a good chance of being his running mate in the quarter. Powers would thus be free to team with Lonnie Stowell in the 100 leaving Dave Stearns and a question mark...