Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scheme for building a $20,000,000 motor highway through British Columbia and the Yukon to Alaska. With the fusion of British Columbia and the Yukon there is a better chance that the road will get under way. This project, endorsed by many a tourist organization and chamber of commerce, is disliked by those who think that such a road might be used for military purposes in the event of war between the U. S. and a Far Eastern power...
Last month Northwest Airlines got permission from the Post Office to fly 60 mi. south of its run between Seattle and Spokane so it could serve Yakima, Wash., which had no airline at all. The Denver Chamber of Commerce immediately petitioned the Post Office to allow United to do the same for Denver. TWA and others protested violently, but Wyoming Air, the sole system which would be directly hurt, offered no objection because of an agreement with United. Last week, to everyone's surprise, Post Office Solicitor Karl A. Crowley decided in favor of the petition...
...long week end in Camagüey Province to his gleaming, refurbished Camp Columbia ten miles outside Havana, Boss Batista met his Capitol lieutenants to hear details of how the lower house of Cuba's 16th Congress was staging a legislative "standup" strike in the corridors outside their chamber. For a full week they had refused to take their seats in number sufficient for a quorum. Unread on the lectern was the latest message which Dictator Batista had authorized his hand-picked President Federico Laredo Bru to read...
...soon as the Colonel's lieutenants shuttled back from Camp Columbia to the Capitol, the stand-up was over. Back into the chamber filed 111 of the lower house's 162 members, just enough for a quorum but not enough to let Boss Batista forget that they were aggrieved. What they then heard from President Laredo Bru would have burned the ears of any U. S. Congress...
...Wenatchee, Wash., because it "held thousands of skilled apple workers in the Wenatchee Valley up to ridicule and contempt," the Chamber of Commerce petitioned the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America Inc. for elimination from the screen of the term "apple-knocker...