Word: branching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reapportionment Bill. The House measure duplicated the essentials of the Senate bill in providing that membership of the House shall be retained at 435, and that, after the taking of the census, State representations in the House shall be automatically reapportioned according to 1930 population figures by the executive branch of the Government...
Learned, eager Senator White gave $300,000 and undertook to be the first president. He and Ezra Cornell agreed that the starting point of a college in rural New York should be agriculture and that the curriculum should branch out later so that "any person can find instruction in any study." There is an inaccurate tradition that Cornell is chiefly an agricultural college. Founders Cornell & White integrated the State-support idea with their own gifts so that today the New York State College of Agriculture, the State College of Home Economics, and the State College of Veterinary Medicine are part...
Understanding of Russian industry is dependent upon realization that Russian industry is thoroughly nationalized. The Supreme Economic Council appoints for each branch of industry a Commissariat, who receives a subsidy for the promotion of the business over which he rules. Both buying and selling is done not by individuals but by cooperatives. Co-operatives in Russia do not mean organizations of all members of the same trade. They are organizations of all trades in the same community. Thus a producer's cooperative in a given community would include steel men, grain men, textile men; would handle all the production...
...announcement that Pennsylvania Railroad would spend $100,000,000 in electrification, the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad last week announced that it would electrify 173 miles of track over 78 miles of road. Electrification will not include Lackawanna's main Buffalo-Manhattan line but will be confined to short branch lines, particularly the Morris & Essex division from Hoboken to Dover...
Under its terms the House would keep its present size-435 members-and readjustments of representation would be automatically made by the executive branch of the government on the basis of the new census figures, if the Congress failed to act promptly...