Word: using
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Also, said Dr. Menzel, "Coronal observations may furnish an index that statisticians can use, or perhaps misuse, in attempts to correlate solar activity with terrestrial affairs, such as the amount of ozone in the atmosphere, occurrence of aurorae, biological effects of radiation, meteorological phenomena, and perhaps some day, long-range weather forecasting...
Born E. Mclntyre de Pencier 44 years ago near New Orleans, French-Irish Fletcher Wiley was long a jack-of-all-trades: "mucked in the mines, worked on the railroad, was a salesman, shipped on a freighter, did some research in chemistry developing two processes now in general use in the foodstuff industry...
...Extension, Inc. opened a train-auto service. Sponsored by the roads (which put up no funds but gave terminal facilities for booths and parking spaces, telephone & telegraph service), Railway Extension was designed to persuade travelers to leave their cars at home, cake their journeys by rail, rent cars for use at their destination...
Like most bankers, Amadeo Peter Giannini has no use for the New Deal. Unlike most, he has no use for Wall Street either. His quarrel with Wall Street dates from 1931, when, in a famous proxy fight, he came out of retirement to oust Elisha Walker (now of Kuhn, Loeb) from the chairmanship of Transamerica Corp., which controls 495-branched Bank of America, fourth largest U. S. bank. His quarrel with the New Deal began in 1938. Late that year SEC, threatening to delist its stock, charged that Transamerica's registration statement contained "false and misleading statements...
What concerned U. S. oilmen last week was a purely domestic problem: how to get their domestic supply in hand. For months the U. S., which last year produced 62% of the world's oil, has turned out more gasoline than it can sell or use. Last week's tabulation set the inventory glut at 102,452,000 bbl., up an astonishing 44% from last year's none-too-low September bottom, down only .4% from a record top the week before...