Word: catchings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Public Works Administration. He can trust himself and his immediate aides, for dishonesty at the top is a rare exception in national government. But what he and Washington fear are stealing and crockery down the line among the hordes of minor officials far removed from his office. To catch such greedy sinners he has organized a Bureau of Investigation under Louis Russell Glavis whose job it will be to choke graft in its tracks wherever found. Emergence. When Harold Ickes went to Washington on March 4 the general public marveled at his name, wondered who he was. Today, after four...
...Administrator.† General Johnson fixed his own salary at $6,000 per year. Meanwhile the possibility of a temporary blanket code for all industry hung over Washington and the nation all last week. General Johnson felt that some such summary step was necessary to help purchasing power and consumption catch up with production and prevent a fresh collapse. He drafted a 35-hour, $14-per-week sample but nowhere in the Recovery Act could his lawyers find authority to compel industries to accept such a set of regulations until they framed their own. Over the week-end General Johnson...
...Atlantic record is 502 lb., a fish hooked by Adman Louis Wasey off Cat Cay, Bahamas, last April. Mr. Wasey's fish, however, was fought by himself and another man, therefore neither can claim the catch...
...Hemingway's hook-spitted mackerel, struck, and the battle was on. "He jumped," the stout scrivener said, "like in the Apocalypse!" Sixty-five minutes later the gleamy, purple-backed fish was gaffed, pulled over the launch's freeboard. Back at Havana Mr. Hemingway posed happily beside his catch as it was hung on the custom house scales. The fish weighed 468 lb.. was 12 ft. 8 in. long. Not only was it the biggest marlin ever caught off the Cuban coast with rod and line* but neurotic Ernest Hemingway had fought the bucking sea bronco alone...
...Salomon, Photographer Lohse has no secret technique, depends on snapping well-composed pictures, developing and enlarging them himself. His F 1.3 lens is the fastest used, excepting only the cinema's F 1.4. His little Contax special cost him $225 (the lens alone $170), a telephoto attachment to catch long-distance candid shots $80 more. He has a right angle telescope-finder to snap people while they think he is snapping someone else...