Word: coasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this time. He gave the President power to alter the setup of all executive agencies-except certain ones, specifically listed. (Important exceptions in the bill as passed by the Senate: Civil Service, Communications, Power, Trade, Interstate Commerce, Securities & Exchange, Employes' Compensation, Maritime, Tariff Commissions, Army Engineers Corps, Coast Guard, NLRB, Board of Tax Appeals, Federal Reserve Board, FDIC, Veterans' Administration. Most important: the Comptroller General's office, whose functions of o.k.-ing expenditures beforehand and auditing them afterward the President last year sought to divide between, respectively, the Budget Director and a new Auditor General.) The bill...
After stifling under a pall of rank smoke for three weeks, officials of a dozen east coast Florida cities met last week in Fort Lauderdale to discuss what they could do about a major catastrophe. Fires-some of them presumably started by alligator hunters burning grass around their quarry's wallow-had swept more than 1,000,000 acres east and south of Lake Okeechobee. The burned area included 154,000 acres of rich muck and peatlands which nature was centuries in laying down and which expensive drainage systems were installed to make arable. Down through the sawgrass...
...Province, right at Shanghai's unconquered back door. Pop! went another into Kiangsi. Objective of the new drive was Nanchang, capital of Kiangsi. A city of 500,000, Nanchang is a key point on the Chekiang-Hunan railway, China's last line of supply from the east coast. In two days, according to Japanese reports, 1,100 Chinese lay dead and 6,500 were captured. In seven days the offensive banged its way into Nanchang...
...were half-starved. No restaurant served meals, no bars had drinks. Lentils and dried beans were all anyone could get to eat, and precious little of them. A daily average of 2,000 were reported dying of hunger and sickness. Communications with Valencia, Alicante, Cartagena- warmer cities on the coast-had broken down. No railroad trains ran for there was no coal. No buses moved, for the gasoline supply had given out. Order, direction, organization had broken down...
...days before Christmas a trawler, fishing in 40 fathoms of water off the South African coast, brought up in its net two tons of redfish, kobs and sharks. Among them was a five-foot, 127-lb. fish which had handsome steel-blue scales, dark blue eyes and fins that were trying to be legs. It lived for three hours on deck, taking a bite at the captain's hand. The captain was no scientist but he knew fish, and he had never seen anything like this...