Word: defunction
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...preparing to assure Alaskan supplies by constructing a 1,440-mile railroad from mid-British Columbia to Fairbanks, perhaps to Nome. Since last spring the route has been quietly surveyed under U.S. Engineer Colonel Peter Goerz. A Seattle steel company has bought up the rails from a half-dozen defunct railroads. Washington has discussed the route with Ottawa, and has considered buying a decrepit, 350-mile Canadian railway (between Vancouver and Prince George-although it does not quite reach either) which would fit into the new route...
Hero of the film will be Reverend Gilbert V. Hartke of Catholic University who heads the drama department there. No stranger to the silver screen. Reverend Hartke made his dobut playing juvenile roles for the now defunct Essanay Film Company...
From now on, all specialists, including those previously appointed to the defunct Corps, must qualify for the Army by examination...
...paperwork a year (enough, had they been productive, to turn out more than 1,000 bombers). One hundred twenty forms were eliminated, 132 more simplified, reducing the number of forms 20% from the heyday of red tape, eliminating more than 50% of the actual paperwork required. One of the defunct forms would have cost one industry alone 400,000 man-hours a year; it would have cost the Government 100,000 more man-hours. As for the "bootleggers," the committee wryly reported that they had been "eliminated" by the beautifully simple "expedient of taking errant mimeograph machines into custody...
...into operation. The branch chiefs are mostly ex-foreign correspondents like Wallace Carroll (London), former head of the U.P.'s London bureau; a couple of ex-drama critics like the New York Herald-Tribune's Richard Watts Jr. (Dublin) and Gilbert Gabriel (Anchorage) of Hearst's defunct New York American; ex-admen like J. Walter Thompson's M. L. Stiver (Canberra...