Word: boons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Austrian State Railways. Said an official announcement from the German Railroads Information Office, which last week closed all U. S. bureaus of the Austrian State Tourist Department: "The rejoicing of Austria and the happiness of the Austrian and German people over their long desired reunion will also be a boon to travelers: the dark clouds of political uncertainty have drifted away...
...himself, got into the House by a 9,600 plurality. He has remained there ever since, running far enough ahead of his ticket to win by 20,000 votes in 1936, when Roosevelt carried his district. The Roosevelt 1936 landslide turned out in one way to be a boon for Joe Martin. It occasioned the defeat in Ohio's 22nd District of popular Chester C. Bolton, famed as the richest man in Congress, who had also been for four years Chairman of the Republican Congressional Committee. This year, one of Joe Martin's assignments may be to restore...
...report of the Advisory Committee on Education, backed by the President and soon to come up before the House, is one which would seem to be a boon to education, but might turn out to be a boondoggle of American politics. Recognizing the need for federal support of a failing public school system, the Committee's plan is ideal; unfortunately it is not too practical...
...initiating for its employees the Associated Hospital Service, Harvard has given impetus to a valuable plan of employee welfare. The University's cooperation in promoting insurance against inevitable accidents can prove a great boon to employees...
...they had an apparatus which would show, on a sort of artificial horizon, every object for a mile around, together with its distance and direction, ship captains nosing uneasily ahead through a fog would be much safer and happier. So far such a mariner's boon has not appeared. Yet it seems to be on the way, because the problem is simply one of technical ingenuity in applying principles already understood...