Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kansas City, Baltimore, Boston, Washington-in most cases accompanied by unusually high humidity readings. (In Washington, 92°, a woman telephoned the Weather Bureau, asked "Where will I have to go to cool off? New Hampshire?" "Sorry," replied the Weather Bureau, "it's 90 in New Hampshire.") The Act of God which produced these extraordinary phenomena was the misbehavior, for no apparent reason, of high and low pressure areas. These areas usually proceed across the U. S., from west to east, in a stately procession so that the weather changes every two or three days, cool winds from...
...thing Secretary of the Interior Harold Le Clair Ickes found to his liking when the administration of Puerto Rico was shifted from the War to the Interior Department four years ago. It was a statute, incorporated by Congress in the Island's first Organic Act (dating from the trust-fearing days of 1900) and reincorporated in the present Organic Act (1917), limiting the amount of land any corporation could own for agricultural purposes to 500 acres. Crusty Mr. Ickes well knew that few of Puerto Rico's sugar companies own less than 500 acres. He demanded that island...
...Walküre (Sat. 11 a.m., NBC-Blue). Part of Act I by short wave from the Bayreuth Wagner Festival...
...crop larger than last year (88,047,000 Ib.) and substantially higher than the quotas. Angry planters in both States immediately got injunctions suspending collection of the penalties, promised to take the case to the Supreme Court if necessary. Two years ago the Court ruled the similar Kerr-Smith Act unconstitutional...
...were postponed upon protests from Labor, which wanted a maximum 8-hr, day, 48-hr, week. The ICC's truck division had specified a maximum 60-hr. week with 15 hr. of duty and twelve of work in any 24. Last week, pointing out that the Motor Carriers Act was designed for safety reasons, not for "economic or social ends," the ICC. clung to the 60-hr. week but specified that there be at least eight hours off duty in every 24 and immediate relief from duty after every ten hours. Effective date: October 1. ¶ Bought some...