Word: directional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Secretary Ickes announced that all the Public Works projects he is setting afoot will ultimately provide $1,001,200,000 worth of building material orders, 14,225,000 man-months of labor, $515,600,000 in direct wages...
George Gershwin Memorial (Sun. 3 p.m. CBS). Jazz King Paul Whiteman and Conductor Howard Barlow direct merged orchestras in a commemorative concert. Soloists: Singers Maxine Sullivan and Jane Froman, Pianists Roy Bargy and Walter Gross...
Anti-Monopoly. To satisfy the President's trust-busting urge. Congress finally appropriated $500,000 to a committee to investigate monopoly, left $400.000 of the appropriation under direct Presidential control (TIME, June...
...main battle front at Chengchow, 300 miles on a direct rail line north of Hankow, the Japanese forces last week made only small gains. Retreating Chinese had cut dykes on the Yellow River north of the city and the saffron waters of "China's Sorrow" poured over the low-lying, sandy ground outside Cheng-chow, bogged down Japan's mechanized advance...
...tourists who had come to see the fun. Present were such upland musical celebrities as bristle-bearded Fiddler Jilson Setters and Brother Dawson of Rowan County, who leads his Gregorian Chanters through old liturgical chants. Also present, in full plaid regalia, were ballad-singing Director Lyda Messer Caudill, direct hillbilly descendant of Mary Queen of Scots, and Author Jean Thomas,* "traipsin' woman" who founded the festival after "traipsin'"all over the neighboring mountains collecting the songs of the mountaineers...