Word: blanket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foot mountain chains, this wilderness has only three connections with civilization-a highway up the coast and 50 miles inland a parallel highway and Southern Pacific R. R. line. Between are said to lie rich deposits of chrome, copper, gold, iron, coal, limestone and platinum beneath an evergreen blanket of several billion feet of virgin timber. To exploit this domain has been a local dream for 50 years but only in the last three has exploitation actually begun, and that almost solely through the efforts of a onetime hunter of dinosaur eggs named Gilbert Elledy Gable. Since 1935 Gilbert Gable...
Last week SEC and the Federal Power Commission simultaneously laid a big wet blanket over the second situation. SEC announced that no former members of its staff would be allowed to argue before it or assist at hearings in connection with cases which were pending during their SEC employment without first obtaining permission. FPC announced that no for mer members could appear before it or assist at hearings within one year after resigning. By no means uncommon, similar rules are already in effect for the Treasury Department and the Federal Communications Commission, though not for the Federal Trade...
German papers had at first been forbidden to report the farmers' activities in Berlin or even their arrival. The State's act of clemency and the story of the farmers were then released together last week, timed to blanket in the German press the ending of the Niemoller trial (TIME, Feb. 21). Heroic Rev. Martin Niemöller, a Wartime U-boat commander who helped sink record Allied tonnage, was arraigned four weeks ago on charges which included sedition. During the trial, from which press and public were excluded, the State's case apparently so far collapsed...
Cuban police swept over the island last week with a blanket order to round up radicals, "detained" hundreds, for several days. With this as a prelude, Cuba's dominant army "strong man," squat, swarthy Colonel Fulgencio Batista held elections to fill 81 seats in the House, one in the Senate...
Under such circumstances, the Congress last week contented itself with passing one big resolution: a blanket rejection of All-India Federation. The United Provinces cabinet who had so defiantly resigned as a curtain raiser, quietly withdrew their resignations as a curtain downer, carried on this week under the British Raj. Dispatches announced that the resigned native cabinet of Bihar, after a little further haggling with their British governor, were also expected to withdraw their resignations. Thus His Majesty's Government, whose game is quietly to keep pressing mercurial Indians into the mold of Sir Samuel Hoare's Constitution...