Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their sewers few city dwellers give a second thought, so basic and taken-for-granted is sewage disposal in urban life. New York City's sewers spout 1,107,000,000 gallons every 24 hours. Chicago's daily 800,000,000 gallons would make a 100-acre lake 40 ft. deep. There is a mile of sewers for every 1,000 persons in the U. S. Even a half-hour suspension of sewage disposal might cripple city existence, but who cares...
...Chicago last week, for the first time since a strike was called against three big independent steel companies - Republic, Youngstown, Inland-the basic law which is supposed to forestall strikes was finally invoked. Van A. Bittner, regional director of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, formally accused Inland Steel Co. before the Labor Board of "unfair labor practices" under the Wagner Labor Relations Act. Thus, after 70,000 men had been out of work for three weeks, the one legal question at the bottom of the strike was belatedly raised...
...State Medical Society. The A. M. A.'s executives and trustees were vigilantly prepared to balk Dr. Kopetzky's plan-for the minor reason that Miss Lape had not consulted them, for the major reason that it predicated a drastic reversal of Orthodox Medicine's most basic tenets...
...Fascism with ... its official press, its ventriloquist stage, is a matter of concern to men whose work demands, as the basic condition of its existence, freedom to publish. . . . The war is already made. Not a preliminary war. Not a local conflict. The actual war between the fascist powers and the things they would destroy, the war against which we must defend ourselves. . . . And in that war. that Spanish war on Spanish earth, we, writers who contend for freedom, are ourselves, and whether we so wish or not, engaged...
...which will be spent to support at Carleton the "Frank B. Kellogg Foundation for Education in International Relations." For the two full professors and one half-time visiting professor who will lecture on the Foundation, Mr. Kellogg stipulated that "the Pact of Paris is frankly accepted as embodying the basic principle in accordance with which the relations of all nations must ultimately be organized." The Foundation, completely budgeted by cautious Oldster Kellogg, also provides for six scholarships, two to send Carleton students abroad, four to bring foreign students to Carleton...