Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: . . . In TIME, Dec. 10, you carry a picture of Mr. Maxwell Anderson on the cover, with a very interesting story elsewhere in the issue. You state that Mr. Anderson left North Dakota, "because his efforts to make lignite coal burn wearied him.'' . . . The University of North Dakota has expanded considerably since Mr. Anderson's sojourn here. For the past 20 years of my 36 years as chief engineer of the University Power Plant, our constantly enlarging campus has been heated successfully with North Dakota lignite. . . . We are indeed proud of the achievements of Mr. Anderson. . . . However...
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...accepted story was broken to admit Borden Chase, a hydraulic engineer. Soon others were unmasked: a Chicago newshawk using the name Kimball Herrick; a Montana professor named Brassil Fitzgerald; Allen Vaughan Elston, previously unknown outside of the pulp magazines. And more than one professional with a front cover name received a rejection slip, unaware that his story had been judged and discarded solely on merit...
...front cover)* A White House car with a lady and gentleman on the back seat purred into the private Presidential entrance of Washington's Union Station one day last week. The gentleman was Colonel Louis McHenry Howe wearing his usual high collar, his usual dyspeptic expression. As the car halted the lady leaped out to be greeted by Secretary of State Hull, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, Secretary of the Senate Halsey. Passing them all by, she made a beeline for a little, sharp-nosed, red-faced man who had just driven up in a big, black, shiny 16-cylinder Cadillac...
...insurance for the vessel against a book value of only $3,923,000. The company pointed out that it had paid $2,737,745 of the insurance money to the U. S. Shipping Board against notes outstanding, that it was customary to carry high insurance on vessels to cover losses...