Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Flood Byrd of Virginia with many backers has sprung up to question Mr. Wallace's contention. For the chief disputed amendments-licensing and bookinspecting for processors-have nothing directly to do with carrying out AAA's program of "balancing" production of cotton, corn, hogs, wheat and other basic commodities. These new powers are for the purpose of letting AAA extend its control over other commodities. AAA answered this charge only in general terms. Said Chester Davis in a broadcast to farmers last month: "Unless the Act can be made fully effective as a national instrument serving...
...railway train at high speed was the atmosphere. Rev. Calthrop took pencil & paper, invented an "Air-Resisting Train" that was a perfect conception of aerodynamic streamlining. That was in 1865, and the "Air-Resisting Train" never got any further than the U. S. Patent Office. Like most basic inventions, it earned its owner nothing...
...will take 52 hr. - 6 hr. less than the old schedule. Regular basic fare is $24, plus $5 for a berth, upper or lower. Built by General Motors, the nitecoach has berths for 25 including five double-berths 47 in. wide, which cost $7. Single berths are 29 in. wide, 6 ft. long...
...Lumber Code (TIME, April 8). This procedure practically demoralized NRA's personnel, precipitated a nation-wide epidemic of petty code violations and put the Government in the equivocal position of asking for an extension of the NIRA without daring to risk a showdown on the Act's basic validity. To hush critical cries of cowardice, NIRB Chairman Donald Richberg last week stuck his hand into the grab bag of NRA litigation and pulled out another case which he said the Government would quickly carry to the Supreme Court for the test the country seemed to demand. The case...
Fixed Point. Not to be found in headlines this week was the obscure but basic crux of Europe's crisis: The German people stand with Hitler; but the people of France and Britain have no stomach to stand today against Nazidom or with leaders who would take strong action. To Premier Mussolini, brooding alone, this state of affairs seemed to demand candor and he gave it straight from the shoulder in Il Popolo d'Italia...