Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Federation of Labor announced that 10,300,000 employables were out of work last month. The National Industrial Conference Board computed the jobless last June at 7,934,000. The U. S. Chamber of Commerce fortnight ago charged that exaggerated jobless figures were hurting business morale, set its own estimate at less than 7,000,000. Of these, declared the Chamber's report, 2,000,000 were normally unemployable...
...vehicular tube to New Jersey, the Midtown Hudson Tunnel at 39th Street. Eased into place by tugs last week was a bright red. hollow cube of steel as big as an eight-roomed house. After riveters build its steel walls higher, diggers working under compressed air in the lower chamber of the caisson will excavate enough mud to permit the base to settle down 100 ft. below water level. From that point they will dig sideways toward New Jersey...
...simple citizen who loves Liberty and who has the utmost confidence in your wisdom and your love of France. When I began my labors last February interior and exterior peace was threatened. To avert immediate danger we were forced to the recourse of extraordinary parliamentary procedure. [Gastounet forced Chamber and Senate to vote him power to put through the budget by decree] Thanks to Parliament we have balanced the budget; effected fiscal reforms; so improved our trade position that since March 1 500 million francs in gold have entered France. We have averted the danger of inflation and consequent bank...
...shot by the Sûrete because highly placed politicians thought he knew too much. For months the Rightist Paris Press has been hammering insinuations of guilt at dapper Deputy Camille Chautemps who was Premier when the Stavisky scandal broke. M. Chautemps is now leader in the Chamber of the biggest Left bloc, the Radical Socialists whose Party President is Edouard Herriot, perpetual Mayor of Lyons, onetime Premier and today, like M. Tardieu, a Minister of State. One morning last week despondency at the slime being flung at the Chautemps family caused Niece Jacqueline Chautemps to commit suicide...
...funds to construct a high-speed wind tunnel at the laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics at Langley Field, Va. Planned for completion within a year, the 154-ft. tunnel will be made of reinforced concrete with steel-plated walls. Through its test chamber, 8-ft, in diameter, fans driven by 8,000-h.p. motors will hurl a 500-m.p.h. hurricane. Said the committee in a special report to President Roosevelt: "Airplane speeds upward of 500 m.p.h. are attainable, but knowledge is lacking as to the natural laws governing air flow above 200 m.p.h. . . . This wind tunnel...