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Word: drives (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Business, as represented by the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, last week launched a concerted drive upon Congress to do for it that which Franklin Roosevelt has not done (see p. 67). In particular the Chamber was pointing for a helpful tax bill, which Senator Bankhead's move, if adopted, would make impossible. No such bill has yet been written or even formally discussed, but from the House last week Business received one pleasant surprise. The Ways & Means Committee, preparing to carry out the Treasury's recommended revision of the Security laws, voted not only to freeze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Work Undone | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...Fair last fortnight, ex-Yeoman Husted took out his faded blue uniform, adorned it with new buttons, new stripes. By a kind of wishful magic familiar to more men than would ever admit it, John Husted then became "Lieut. Blish C. Hills, U. S. S. Anderson." On Riverside Drive by the Hudson, he strolled with others in blue, bandied glances with the passing girls, was casually curt with mere sailors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Officer of the Day | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...inch mirror was cast by Corning Glass Works of Corning, N. Y., and ground to within one-millionth of an inch of the mathematically correct curve by Cleveland's Warner & Swasey Co., which also built the telescope tube, mounting and drive mechanism. The site selected was Mt. Locke, 6,791 feet above sea level, 225 miles southeast of El Paso...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Where, How & Why? | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

Phillips Brooks House is inaugurating today its final drive to collect old clothes for Cambridge families and textbooks for its library. In conjunction with this campaign, the P. B. H. canvassers will also accept books for the Chinese National Universities in Kunming...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: P.B.H. BEGINS ITS FINAL CLOTHES, BOOK DRIVE | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...observer of his life and works can fail to note that James Joyce is a typical Irishman. Born in Dublin, he remains as Irish in Paris or Trieste as he was in the city of his birth. His friends believe that nothing short of a European war could drive him back to the "little brown bog" and the haunting Liffey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Night Thoughts | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

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