Word: develop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Created by treaty between New York and New Jersey to develop, improve and co-ordinate harbor and terminal facilities, the Port of New York Authority is an independent interstate agency. Its non-salaried commissioners are appointed by the two Governors. Each State contributes to it $100,000 annually. By issuing its own bonds amortized by tolls, it built the Outerbridge Crossing (Staten Island to Perth Amboy. N. J.); the Goethals Bridge (Staten Island to Elizabeth. N. J.): the Bayonne Bridge (Staten Island to Bayonne. N. J.); the George Washington Bridge (Manhattan to Fort Lee. N. J.). It also owns...
...still exporting. The price of Santos has jumped only 2¼¢ a pound in the last month. Though quotations for delivery next March would normally be higher than near contracts, September contracts now stand 2¢ above March contracts, indicating the belief of coffee men that while a shortage may develop, it will be temporary...
Since Castel Gandolfo is invisible from the Vatican, to oblige the Pope Signer Marconi was obliged to use reflectors or to develop a system of "bending" short waves or somehow shooting them out in a curve. Last week he announced that he had done so, that he and his collaborator, the Marchese Luigi Salari had communicated over a distance of 167 miles on 57-cm. (less than 2-ft.) waves. Other radio engineers read his statement with wonder and respect, awaited details...
...York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Ohio, Wisconsin. Sure Roosevelt-168, including Missouri. Doubtful Roosevelt-79, including Indiana, Illinois, Washington, Nebraska. Total: Hoover-284; Roosevelt-247. Vigilantly nonpartisan, TIME will make no guess at the result of the election, take no sides in the campaign, report the political facts as they develop without fear or favor for either candidate...
...become a capitalist. According to Mr. Thomas, U. S. workers have a discouraging habit of thinking of themselves first as white or black. Jew or Gentile, native or foreign born, factory hands or field hands, rather than as a toiling mass all in the same economic boat. To develop class consciousness among workers, to convince them that they have no worthwhile chance of becoming capitalists is one of Nominee Thomas' primary aims in each campaign. Likewise the international quality of true Socialism has to be soft-pedalled in this country which dreads even the semblance of "foreign control...