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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...primary also produced an obstacle to the Governor's greater ambitions. Older than his National Progressives of America is the Farmer-Labor Progressive Federation, a by-product of Minnesota's potent Farmer-Labor Party-a similar attempt to expand a State third-party machine beyond State borders. The burgeoning National Progressives, already a force in California politics and last fortnight unsuccessfully implored by Democratic Governor Nelson Kraschel to abandon their plans for a three-cornered race in Iowa this year, have more than once rubbed elbows with Farmer-Laborites but have preserved a state of truce. This year...
...General Board, the Secretary of the Navy, and Congress. Having persuaded Congress that more bases are needed in the Atlantic, Caribbean and Pacific, the navy is inspecting all available sites (Virgin Islands, the Florida and Texas coasts, etc.), next year will ask for authority and money to expand its defense line...
Sunray Oil Corp. is a small but profitable producer of crude oil and natural gas in Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas and California. Last year it had a neat net of $905,849.89 on a total gross operating income of $5,743,420.37. It now wants to expand, at the same time retire some bank loans. But, like many another gun-shy firm today, it distrusts the standard form of bond issue, which can cause such a crisis as that now afflicting the B. & O. railroad by maturing during depressed times (see p, 62). So last week Sunray Oil filed with...
...every sign of being C. I. O.'s soundest long-term asset. Unlike mining, steel, oil, textiles, the motor industry has still a big enough margin of profit to make auto unions as well as auto manufacturers economically powerful. If U. A. W. can expand into aviation, glass, rubber, as John Lewis hopes, it will add still further to its power. Given leadership, U. A. W. might gain a dominance like that of the railroad brotherhoods in Labor's last generation...
Soon little station W2XR was showered with fan mail, commending its choice of programs, asking for more. Engineer Hogan's phonographic broadcasts were obviously reaching a special type of listener whose symphonic appetite was not satisfied by the larger stations. So he decided to expand, took on a partner, acquired larger, high-fidelity broadcasting facilities, renamed his station WQXR...