Word: compacting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...easy to win them: "All you do is put in more columns than anybody else." But there are no columns in the Wheaton art centre. What led the judges to decide on Hornbostel and Bennett was the simplicity of their design, one of the most compact in the competition; their understanding of financial, operating and teaching problems. The finished art centre will be fan-shaped, snuggling naturally to the contours of its location. Candidly dissatisfied with the appearance of the building, the judges picked Hornbostel and Bennett on the strength of their ground plan, contemplated many changes before...
...Secretary Ickes and the NRA to get the price up again. When NRA went out, oilmen relied on proration: no well in the East Texas field was allowed to run off more than a fixed amount (now an average of 20 barrels a day), and an Interstate Oil Compact, promoted by Oklahoma's Governor Ernest Marland, spread production control to six States-Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico, Colorado, Illinois. Carefully the price was built back...
...which automatically cut proration figures 16%. Simultaneously the Oklahoma Corporation Commission issued an emergency order cutting allowables for the rest of May 81,000 barrels daily to 405,000. Kansas set May daily allowables at 160,000 barrels though at the week end the other States in the Interstate Compact had not yet followed suit...
...Bren was adopted for Britain's infantry battalions some two years ago. to replace the U. S.-invented Lewis machine gun. The name is a British War Office simplification of Brno, site of the Czechoslovakian Arms Manufacturing Co. plant where the gun was perfected. * A trim, compact gun, it can be operated by one man and fired from the shoulder, on a bipod or tripod. It is ten pounds lighter and five inches shorter than the old army pattern Lewis gun, is gas-operated and air-cooled. There are two interchangeable barrels, so that if one overheats after...
Under Western Stars (Republic) introduces a new singing cowboy, compact, blue-eyed, diffident Roy Rogers (real name: Leonard Slye). What makes his debut notable is that the song he sings is of social significance. On the sere cinema range ridden by twangy Roy Rogers no grazing buffalo roam. Most of the time the Western stars are blotted out by great, rolling clouds of dust. In the discouraging words of Dust, Cowboy Rogers laments...