Word: commissioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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>Italy's war of nerves seemed settling to a state of siege as slow as the siege of Vicksburg. Now and then a stray shell-a blackout, rumors of French-British pressure (see p. 21), whispers of a dire Axis plot- sailed over and rolled along the streets. >Nobody...
At Newport News, Va. one noon last week Anna Eleanor Roosevelt cracked a bottle of U. S. champagne over the steel prow of the biggest, costliest (34,000-ton, $17,000,000) passenger ship ever made in the U. S., christened her America. As 30,000 well-wishers gave a...
Last February the Interstate Commerce Commission, which supervises all vehicular interstate haulage for hire, was confronted with an odd request. A man named Clarence Young Rose wanted permission to continue to operate what he called Georgia Caravan Camps Inc., which consisted of an annual cross-country trip of a large...
Colonymaid is the fifth textile plant that Rector Colony has established in the past eight months.* It all started last year when to Rector Colony's office under the rumbling Frankford Street elevated went a delegation of 55 unemployed hosiery workers to ask him for jobs. Lithuanian-born David...
In El Paso County, Colo., a rancher appealed for protection from a WPA project to build one of 22,000 outdoor toilets on his place. Answered the Colorado Public Utilities Commission: it had no jurisdiction. Reason: outdoor privies are not public utilities.