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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sponsored by a large number of youth organizations and under the immediate direction of the American Youth Congress, a group of students will journey to Washington this week-end to visit their congressman and urge the passage of several liberal measures...
...wants his training for nothing, the Air Corps will take any healthy, well-schooled male between the ages of 20 and 26, feed, clothe, shelter and train him for a year, pay him $75 a month, almost guarantee a defense force or airline flyer's job at the end of the course. Last week two other ways were introduced. Tennessee began sending out application blanks for five State schools, accommodating 500 ground pupils each, to be established at major airports. Tuition will be free to physically fit boys & girls over 16. And in the U. S. Senate, New Jersey...
...hours after handsome Anthony Eden resigned as Britain's Foreign Secretary, Glasgow haberdashers marked down the Eden-style black Homburg from ?1 to four shillings. In London's West End, however, it still held its own. "It has too much character," said one Mayfair hatter, "to be blown off by a political breeze...
...delight to Washington gossips last year were the bickerings of the National Bituminous Coal Commission, many of them attributable to the vigorous, Napoleonic methods of its chairman, 50-year-old Charles Hosford Jr. At year's end, however, the commission finally managed the herculean job of fixing 30,000 minimum prices for soft coal produced east of the Mississippi (TIME, Dec. 27). By last week it became apparent that the commission, in its haste, had erred on the side of being too Napoleonic. The Association of American Railroads, whose members burn 22% of U. S. soft coal...
...president of Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. Westinghouse Electric (second in size to immense General Electric in the field of electrical equipment) in 1937 showed a $20,000,000 profit, the highest since 1929. But a better basis for Mr. Bucher's optimism was that at year's end Westinghouse had $63,000,000 of unfilled orders, enough to keep it busy for four months...