Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During and after the World War, Mr. Walter Runciman, as he was then, served under various Prime Ministers in such capacities as President of the Board of Trade, combined the Liberal fervor of a Gladstone with tireless practical energy, plus a modern grasp of economics. In 1930, when enormous shipping interests headed by the late Lord Kylsant and including the Royal Mail, faced scandal and collapse, Mr. Runciman stepped in to help unsnarl British shipping chaos by rapid, efficient reorganization...
...Bacon Act established a Bacon Revenue Board, with adequate powers to rationalize the British bacon industry and extend subsidies for the improvement of antiquated packing houses...
...morning last week, a tall, austere man sat at his desk in the open city room of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, scribbling with a thick blue pencil. Few minutes later his memo was posted on the bulletin board. It read...
...mechanical cry for help. Operated by storage batteries, the small transmitter repeats its call steadily for two or three days, is audible to radio direction finders in searching rescue planes. If a safe but bumpy landing should put the signal into operation, a red light on his instrument board warns a pilot to release the pendulum switch...
What Shall We Do About the Unemployed? (Wed. 8 p.m., CBS) discussed by Professor Lyman Bryson's dinner guests: National Labor Relations Board Regional Director Eleanore M. Herrick, Lawyer Amos R. E. Pinchot, National Occupational Conference Director Robert Happock, an anonymous bricklayer...