Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prices crashing, hopes to bring corn acreage from 1932-33's 59,000,000 and last year's 54-500,000 acres down to some 54,000,000 acres. Reluctant to discuss the matter. AAA legalites nonetheless conceded that this production control was quite as direct as that achieved under the AAAct. They expected to get away with it because of the obvious difficulty a complainant would have in getting the law into court for a test case. If it should escape the Supreme Court's interdiction, the scheme could easily be extended to all the other...
...Student Council also voted to give a sum of $250 to the Red Cross in accordance with its annual custom. This gift is in lieu of a direct appeal to undergraduates for contributions...
...Angeles be restored to flying status as a Navy training ship; 4) that a medium-sized dirigible be built or bought for the Navy as a training ship to replace the Los Angeles. The Merchant Marine Act created the potent new Maritime Commission, provides for two kinds of direct government subsidy-to shipbuilders of as much as 50% of construction costs; to ship operators sufficient to put them on an equal basis with foreign competitors (TIME, July 13). The Commission was directed by the Act to "investigate and determine" what provision should be made for aircraft. Last week, Assistant Secretary...
Sumner Willard '37 will direct the production of "Aisle de Nuit," while "Le Commissaire Est Bon Enfant" is directed by Mile. Germaine Arosa, who has directed successfully several plays in Paris and Boston...
...find his footing in Harvard, or in this of that worthy purpose. Presumably some help is given, but few have the face to deny that the cash payment is usually made to facilitate the complete neglect of work (more extra-curricular activity, if you will) and not to direct the poor lost sheep to the proper shelf of the Widener reading room...