Word: extends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Director of Aeronautics Eugene Luther Vidal turned last week from $700 airplanes and $6,000,000 seadromes to announce plans for 2,000 new landing fields. The fields will be a gift of the Government to small cities and towns and, indirectly, to the unemployed. Their purpose is to extend the Federal airways system into remote sections, to increase the number of fields for safe intermediate landings, to stimulate local private flying...
...Russian recognition created any stir. Tokyo papers printed screaming extras. Japanese, who mortally fear any aid the U. S. may give to Russia, their traditional foe, read the extras with pounding pulses. Everything, realists realize, now depends upon the size of credits which the U. S. proceeds to extend to Russia, notorious for her reluctance to pay in cash, her insistence on long rather than short-term credits. As the President went off to Warm Springs (see p. 7), Comrade Litvinoff stayed in Washington to talk credits with the Treasury, the R. F. C. and certain financiers...
...Voted down by a smashing Conservative majority a resolution against the National Government's plan to extend the Labor Laws Act of 1920 which gives no protection as to working hours to children under...
...banks' situation was suddenly plain. From the Western prairies rose furious anti-banker howls for a new system, for lower interest rates, for "nationalization of credit." Parliament was impressed. To avoid financial confusion when Canada could least afford it, Conservative Premier Bennett got the Parliament to extend bank charters for one year during which he promised to call a commission to study Canada's banking, currency and coinage...
...Commission's second recommendation all five members set their hand. It called for an organization to extend intermediate and short-term credit to Canada's furious farmers. Observers last week expected Parliament, when it meets next January, to make the Commission's recommendations Canadian...