Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recent and hectic research into his moldy History 1 notes has told the Vagabond, with all that bluntness and clarity which characterized his first eager draughts of knowledge at Professor Merriman's fount so many "eras" ago, that Waterloo was an inconsequential little place near Brussels where a great British...
General Foods Corporation, which maintains a "college fleet" of trawlers yesterday launched the "Harvard" a $250,000 vessel, from the plant of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation at Fore River. A sister ship, the "Princeton" is to be launched later this month. The "Annapolis," "West Point" and "Yale" are already in...
Last week. Admiral Land was pleased to remove these barnacles from Dollar Lines' hulk and to announce that RFC would provide $2,500,000 for new working capital, that the Commission would provide $2.000,000 to repair twelve of the line's ships, $3,000,000 more by...
In June 1936 Eastern railroads began selling passenger tickets at 2? a mile (after 16 years at 3.6?). Within a few months officials complained that the low fare was a losing proposition. Increase in traffic, they said, was not enough to compensate for the cut rate. After hearing them grumble...
When Kansas Pipe Line & Gas Co. asked the Federal Power Commission fortnight ago for permission to build a 2,346-mile, $21,470,000 pipe line north through unpiped country to the Mesabi Iron Range in northern Minnesota, the National Bituminous Coal Commission, the United Mine Workers and various coal...