Word: blinding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back upon the good books of the Social Security Board in Washington last week went the indigent aged, the needy blind, the dependent minors of Oklahoma. They had been cut off in March when Washington discovered monstrous and comical padding of the old-age rolls by corpses, well-off oldsters, asylum inmates, a Negro registered under two names, etc., etc. (TIME, March 7). When the State Welfare Commission declared it had purified its relief system, SSB waited a few weeks to be sure the purge was permanent. Satisfied last week, SSB resumed matching each Oklahoma welfare dollar with a Federal...
...conventions, this year's plans for some 500 feature pictures, to cost some $150,000,000, were introduced with less noise, no less ballyhoo. By last week salesmen were visiting the nation's 16,558 exhibitors, talking up next season's shows. Under the block-booking blind-selling system of distribution to which the sprawling cinema industry is geared, they were all out to sell, in prescribed assortments, films not yet produced...
...quizzical eye over Hollywood's trade practices. While film circles last week rumored that the $2,000,000,000 cinema industry was slated for official arraignment, a Hollywood lobby in Washington fought to prevent the Neely bill, already passed by the Senate (prohibiting compulsory block booking and blind selling*), from reaching the floor of the House...
...decides to leaves. He mistakes the mirror for a window and is quite some shaken up by the minor crackup which ensues. Then, having been aroused, he changes instantly from a disturbance into a menace. He runs out his stinger to full length and charges the bed in a blind rage. The Vagabond retreats under the covers; he is in no mood to fight. Overhead he hears the motor drone round and round. This little thimbleful of winged poison is not fooling; he doesn't seem to care who he attacks. And there'd certainly be the devil...
Many delays, re-routings, cancellations and accidents result not from port-to-port flight through bad weather, but from hazards of landing when the destination has been reached. FORTUNE reports that some airmen therefore hope that universal application of a workable blind-landing system would increase commercial air traffic as much as 500%. Reasons why this development has not yet been made: Airlines cannot afford field equipment ($25,000 to $40,000 per field); the Bureau of Air Commerce is authorized by the Air Commerce Act of 1926 to spend Government money for beacons and beams between airports...