Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...monopoly was cracked wide open. In a 100-page decision on a case which had required 30 months of litigation, 17,205 pages of testimony transcript, California's Railroad Commission gave Santa Fe Transportation Co. authority to inaugurate passenger service between San Diego and San Francisco, with a basic fare rate of 1½?-per-mile and tickets interchangeable between streamlined trains and air-cooled busses. Wherever Santa Fe train and bus lines meet, the passenger will be free to transfer from one to the other. The Santa Fe train-&-bus relay will carry passengers from San Francisco...
Although there has been no change in officers, determination of club policy has been placed in the hands of the five chairmen of governing committees. Policy, Finance, Membership, College, and Publicity. Although a new constitution will be drafted, the basic purpose of the group will not be altered...
...real shock to reach Downing Street from Teheran was arbitrary cancellation of the Anglo-Persian Oil Co. concession scheduled to run until 1961. Surprised British statesmen, suddenly realizing that protection of this oil lease would involve great military effort and huge expenditures, ended by negotiating. Anglo-Persian's basic holdings were enormously decreased and the Shah obtained increased royalties which were promptly earmarked for the army. This highly successful instrument of national freedom, now 100,000 strong, still receives its daily orders from His Imperial Majesty...
Spring engorgement is the result of a gradual heating of the body, said Dr. Bazett. And this heating-up may be considered the basic reason why people with weak brains tend to burst cerebral blood vessels in the spring, why people with weak hearts may collapse just as winter ends, why many who rush south to escape northern winters promptly die there...
...Interstate Commerce Commission by a vote of 6-to-5 refused to allow the Eastern roads to raise their basic passenger fares from 2? to 2½? a mile...