Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last fall Pan Am set out as an intervener before CAA to block American Export from getting a certificate of convenience and necessity. Chief contentions: that Export was not financially equipped for ocean trailblazing, that its personnel was inadequate, that on air lanes later to be invaded by French and British lines its competition would be wasteful and costly to U. S. aviation...
...acres), building of a factory and homes, equipping a communal farm. Thousands of dollars went out the window when Resettlement Administration officials took to prefabricating concrete slabs for the houses, then couldn't find a way to join them. More was lost when they switched to casting cinder block, later found these could be bought for one-third the cost on the open market. Four years after the project was begun (1933) the first families finally moved in and the garment factory began to give work to about 60 needlemen...
...Salemite can recall, the Bushes have been Salem's first family, its only millionaires. Asahel II had three sisters, the most notable of whom is quaint, petite Miss Sally, who lives in a big old house in the 40-acre "wilderness" Asahel I bought in mid-Salem, a block from the State capitol. There she cut fresh flowers each morning to pretty up the Bush Bank's lobby. There she pastured her cows. Asahel II 's son was no banker, dabbled in world travel, social pastimes. Of the grandsons, one, Asahel IV ("Tito"), 28, is an Associated...
Charles W. Holtzer fellowships to Rolf Altschul 3G, of London, England; Carl G. Anthon 2G, Herbert Block 2G, and Hans Heymann 2G, of Cambridge...
...fact remains that the H.S.U. is the most successful political group now active in the College. However pinkish may be the sources of its energy, the energy is there, and just at present it is directed toward achieving something vital to everyone" peace. Smaller organizations cannot hope to block up that energy, or erase its coloring...