Word: actes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Unemployment Insurance Act extended the British "dole'' paid the unemployed to include jobless farm workers...
...Cinematograph Act upped on a new sliding scale, the number of films U. S. producers must make in the United Kingdom. For each 100 films shown, 15 must now be British-made and in ten years this figure will have climbed...
...Navigation Act increased the annual State subsidy to British commercial aviation from...
This week, Assistant Attorney General Thurman Wesley Arnold, in charge of trustbusting, announced that he was bringing the A. M. A. before a grand jury for violation of the Sherman Act. Although there are 60 cooperative health organizations in the U. S., with a total membership of 1,500,000, Trust-Buster Arnold declared that he was not concerned with justifying their method of medical care. "There should be free and fair competition between new forms of organization for medical service and older types of practice. ..." The A. M. A. violated the Sherman Act, Arnold said, because it attempted...
...work this out for myself," he cried. All afternoon, on his twelve-inch-wide perch, he argued with his sister, a priest, a doctor, a minister. He drank a dozen glasses of water, lit countless cigarets, pondered his problem. Should he finish the act the audience of 10,000 was waiting for, or return ignominiously to safety? The afternoon wore on, evening came. Still John Warde had not solved his problem. At 10:38 he heard the rustle of a rope net which police were vainly trying to anchor below him. He nipped his burning cigaret out and down...