Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First white invaders of California found huge herds of sea lions on almost every rock. After 1860 the creatures were killed by thousands for their hides and oil. Soon it became unprofitable to hunt them and by the turn of the century they were on the increase again. Fishermen claimed...
There is no doubt that sea lions eat a few salmon, damage a few nets. But the California Fish & Game Commission now believes that they do much more good than harm because they eat valueless and destructive fish such as morays, squid, octopi, dogfish, deepwater crabs. The Commission also believes...
Western Union's 1,872,461 miles of wire carry four-fifths of all U. S. telegrams and Western Union has no worries about getting its share of the U. S. telegraph business. But with costs piling up in 1936 and 1937 Western Union is more than ever concerned...
Last week in Milwaukee a Federal District Court judge signed his name to an opinion in accounting proceedings in some patent infringement suits which brought sewage disposal smack into the dinner-table conversation of every taxpayer in the city. To Activated Sludge, Inc., which had sued the City of Milwaukee...
What NBC's President Lenox Lohr wanted was "imaginative and efficient guidance" in a field which stands as much in need of an organizing genius as did the cinema industry when it hired Will Hays 15 years ago. Educators have long been unsatisfied with the radio as an educational...