Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Approved a conference report on the Civil Aviation Bill establishing a Civil Aeronautics Authority to supervise and regulate all phases of civil aviation (except mail routes assigned by the Post Office Department...
...days, while scores of G-men and thousands of neighbors scoured lower Florida in vain, the dead body of James Bailey ("Skeegie") Cash Jr., 5½, lay in a palmetto thicket not a mile from his home in Princeton, Fla. Heavy rains and scorching sun left the body unrecognizable except for the white-&-rose pajamas Skeegie wore when someone took him from his crib (TIME, June 13). But not even a sharp-eyed buzzard found the remains, till late one night last week, a surgeon, a State prosecutor and twelve G-men led by Chief John Edgar Hoover came crashing...
...last week's row was clever, self-assertive Fred C. Pieper, board member from Atlanta and chairman of U.A.W.'s newly created finance committee. According to President Martin's enemies, Mr. Pieper had pre-empted most of the executive authority at Detroit headquarters with no sanction except Mr. Martin's personal blessing. According to President Martin, U.A.W.'s trouble was that Mr. Frankensteen, whom he demoted from assistant president to vice president two months ago, had been conspiring with U.A.W. "Communists" like Mr. Mortimer to get Mr. Martin...
Neither set manufacturer has sets available except to order, neither can guarantee purchasers any regular schedule of telecasts for their receivers, since the only telecasting being done in the New York area is the strictly experimental work...
...months ago, major Southern California publishers decided to starve radio stations of all publicity except bare program listings. Last week the movement spread: in San Francisco and Oakland six papers* decided to follow suit temporarily -permanently if readers did not object. In Chicago, the Tribune, following earlier action by the News and American, discontinued its daily radio news column. Meantime, advertising agencies were working on a plan for listing sponsors or products in newspaper radio logs at specified advertising rates...