Word: creation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Roosevelt sent Congress a message which, he indicated, rounded out his program for 1937. It called for the creation of regional agencies similar to TVA, which would become one of seven dividing the whole U. S.: one for the Atlantic Seaboard, one for the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley, one for the deep South (TVA), one for the Missouri Basin, one for the Arkansas Valley and Texas, one for the Columbia River Valley (already in formation), one for California and the Colorado River Basin. These would undertake national planning in their respective spheres, cope with flood control, soil erosion...
...play his part, his intention is most of all to introduce a method of approach which allows the tackling of a problem according to its peculiar conditions. "What I do want is to make the young people realize how inexhaustible the means of creation are if they make use of the innumerable modern products...
...Root had vitalized the idea, secured from the Carnegie Corp. an initial $1,000,000 appropriation to organize the American Law Institute. He became its first president. Professor Lewis its director. To Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, then an associate judge of New York's Court of Appeals, creation of the A. L. I. signalized "to the world that laissez faire in law is going or has gone the way of laissez faire in economics...
...Post Office has been as capricious with the airlines as a young girl is with her suitors. This airline application it grants; that one it turns down, often with no satisfactory explanation. One of its key policies has been to frown on any proposed extension of one airline or creation of a new one if it will compete with an established service (TIME, March 22). Since the Post Office controls the air mail subsidy, its word is tantamount to law and many a proposed extension has failed to materialize. Denver is such a case. Any new transcontinental line through Denver...
...compartment, Pullman Co. last week had an announcement. Now abuilding, in new equipment for the New York Central's 20th Century Limited, the Pennsylvania's Broadway Limited, the North Western, Union Pacific and Southern Pacific streamliners and the Santa Fe's Chief, is a new Pullman creation-the "roomette." Occupying a little over the space of one section (upper & lower berths), it is a miniature compartment with a sliding metal door, a real bed which folds into the wall giving ample room for vertical dressing. The bed is 6 ft., 5 in. long, four inches more than...