Word: extended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Democratic nomination (virtual election) for Governor of Texas. Colorado is going gently broke because its promisers tried to give the oldsters too much ($45 a month). Last week Franklin Roosevelt, the smartest politician in the big U. S., recommended that the Social Security Act should be revised to extend its benefits to another...
...high frequency wave of 500 megacycles that is not affected by static conditions, has a cork-centre bounce, has a frequency that can be measured at distances as low as 50 feet off the ground. Sensitive at present to 5,000 feet, improvements in the tube and transmitter can extend the altimeter's effectiveness to 15,000 feet. As feeler for possible obstructions dead ahead, the present 5,000-foot range would be inadequate because it would give a pilot flying three miles a minute less than 20 seconds in which to climb out of danger...
...body has no regulatory or price-fixing powers, can act only as a clearinghouse between the various State regulatory boards. That it has been successful is attested both by the present small crude oil inventories and by the Commission's voting three weeks ago to ask Congress to extend it another two years...
Macdonald, Harding, Burnett, and Foley did some kicking, and then a few minutes were spent on pass offense and defense. Cornell plays were again scanned and the hour ended with a short signal drill. The orders of the day were that no one extend himself, and the session served as it was intended--to take the kinks out of muscle and brain on the eve of the celebrated game...
...Final. When the skies cleared and the semi-finals were finally resumed, even the most disappointed fans turned up at Forest Hills once more to see whether Sidney Wood, who has stood out in bas-relief against the current U. S. crop of temperamental young tennists this summer, could extend Defending Champion Donald Budge and become the first player to take a set from him. Even that was disappointing. Budge annihilated Wood, 6-3, 6-3, 6-3, in a match almost as unexciting as the other semi-final in which his doubles partner, Budapest-born Gene Mako, unseeded because...