Word: direction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Herbert Gaston's chief job within a job is to direct the Coast Guard on peace patrol. Along with the Navy (which last week began to recommission 116 ancient destroyers for patrol), the Coast Guard will range the Atlantic Coast and 200 miles...
...election night. On this assignment, radio was no cub. Its coverage of the Munich crisis and the Nazi occupation of Czecho-Slovakia were invaluable experience. For the last, exciting fortnight, radio's plans were consequently well laid. Correspondents reported daily, sometimes hourly from the main European capitals direct to U. S. listeners by radio telephone or short-wave pickups. Busy interpreters sat day and night before "monitor" receivers, eavesdropping on foreign radio stations. By round-the-clock diligence of this sort, and with a ceaseless supply of news bulletins from the press associations ticking in to the studios, radio...
Looking thus at da Vinci's art, Kenneth Clark finds himself most attracted to certain works of precisely the same period as the Madonna with the Cat, done in Leonardo's late twenties. The drawings for the Madonna with the Cat "show, as nothing else in his work, a direct and happy approach to life " As Leonardo's intellectual wrestle with painting went on even his drawings became less spontaneous and his paintings took on a cold quality of mystery...
...that Mr. Harrison and his committee had to face was not in stocks but in U. S. Government bonds. Inflation-minded investors who wished to shift to stocks unloaded Governments. Both for the sake of the Treasury and of U. S. member banks, 70% of whose investments are in direct and guaranteed Government obligations, the market could not be allowed to slide...
...credits. Last week Government estimates revealed that foreign investments (roughly 50% British, Canadian and French) amount to some $8,300,000,000. This includes $2,600,000,000 in bank deposits and short term credits; $4,000,000,000 in marketable securities; $1,700,000,000 in direct investments. By taking over the holdings of their nations, belligerent Governments will thus have over $4,000,000,000 for war purchases. In addition Britain is believed to have a gold reserve of approximately $2,500,000,000 and France of $3,153,000,000, making a grand total of more than...