Word: basely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Year ago Mayor LaGuardia launched a new attack on Newark's monopoly-enlargement of the old North Beach Airport on Flushing Bay in Queens (20 minutes by car from Manhattan's Grand Central Station) into the most pretentious land and seaplane base in the world (TIME, Sept. 20). At brisk Newark renovation also began...
...commitments from aviation's big five-Pan American Airways, American. United, Eastern Air Lines and Transcontinental & Western Air-that they would begin using the new field when it is opened officially next April 30. Pan American, which does not use Newark, planned to move in from its own base ten miles away at Port Washington. The others cagily announced they would use both North Beach and Newark...
Peat is compressed, decayed vegetation found in bogs. Processed peat is used as fuel, fertilizer, insulator, wallboard material, wrapping paper, cloth base. Exide Batteries of Canada, Ltd. uses a type of peat for a secret paint which binds rubber to metal. Domestic Scotch whiskey distillers get their vaunted "Highland peat" flavor by charring raw peat inside their kegs. But though the U.S. has 11,200 square miles of peat bogs (only Russia, Canada...
...Cotton loans were fixed on an 8.3? base, near the minimum permitted under the law; Commodity Credit Corp. set aside $100,000,000 to finance the lending...
...Thus the world's largest milk market (6,500,000 qt. a day), New York, became the 22nd district to get such a plan. Marketing Specialist Erskine Harmon was appointed Federal administrator to police the New York industry and maintain the established minimum price paid to farmers (base: $2.45 a cwt.). In drafting the New York program, designed to settle the longtime controversy between farmers and milk distributors in New York City's milk-shed, everyone but distributors (Borden, Sheffield and 698 others) had a voice; prices these distributors must pay farmers are 100% higher under the agreement...