Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Planned since last spring has been a Government silver depository, similar to the gold fortress-vault at Fort Knox, Ky., to be constructed on the grounds of the U. S. Military Academy at West Point. Last week the President signed a bill fixing the site of the silver fortress not at West Point but at Camp Dix, N. J., where as many as 63,848 soldiers were quartered simultaneously during the War and where 1,034 are still encamped on a 7,843-acre military reservation. Reasons for the change, recommended by the House Military Affairs Committee: Camp...
...Senate galleries just in time for adjournment. By the time the rest of his legions had poured into Washington in chartered busses and ramshackle autos to pitch their tents in West Potomac Park, there was no Legislature to intimidate. Lost, moreover, in the adjournment shuffle was the bill the march had been organized to support : a proposal introduced by Washington's Senator Lewis Schwellenbach providing for: 1) no further reductions in WPA rolls, 2) reinstatement of all WPAers unable to get work, 3) a "furlough status" for those finding temporary private employment...
...search for an infallible blind landing system has proceeded now for years with constant view-halloos but never a commercial installation. Whether the Army's new device at last fills the bill was, in the absence of real evidence last week, doubted by most airfolk. Most promising indication was the fact that an integral part of the system is the Sperry gyropilot. This extraordinary device is already capable of so many feats that it is not difficult for some professionals to believe that it can effect blind landings...
ASTROPHEL-Alfred H. Bill-Farrar & Rinehart...
...clouded by legend than most Elizabethans), have noted that his death inspired more than 200 elegies exhausting the superlatives of friends and enemies alike. W?here biographers have struck a snag has been in trying to make convincing a personality to justify these tributes. Latest try is Alfred H. Bill's Astrophel. Written in a half-scholarly, half-popular vein, it adds only the most cautious speculation to the known facts; its main contribution is a closely-woven background of the times, the author's enthusiasm for his subject...