Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Readers Raymond and Chittenden ponder the often cited fact that for 98 years photography has been taking over the representational function which once belonged solely to the graphic and plastic arts. Let all readers reflect that prejudice may prevent pleasure in Art's other and no less important properties - color, texture, form...
Stressed by the President was the recommendation that the farm program's cost should not exceed the current "soil conservation" appropriation of $500,000,000. Asked how he reconciled this with the fact that the Farm Bill made no provisions for raising the additional $250, 000,000 which it will probably cost the Government, the Committee's Chairman Ellison D. ("Cotton Ed") Smith had no answer, left to the House the problem of raising additional revenue for the payments. Meanwhile last week, the House Agriculture Committee under Marvin Jones was working on a Farm Bill...
...Hincks noted that the defendants were "not compelled to prove their innocence." It was up to the Government to prove them guilty, and the Government had the toughest of all legal points to make-"criminal intent." It also had to prove that the picketing allegedly interfered with was in fact "peaceful." Even the Court was skeptical of Mr. Rand's announced intention of using the millwrights to dismantle his Middletown mill, observing, however: "If bluffing were illegal, I am afraid that there would be a considerable reduction in the number of Connecticut Yankees, not to mention international diplomats . . . still...
...know that there was a work-ing-class movement abroad favorable to us; that as a matter of fact this movement later on diminished through no fault of ours but because of political errors which were committed in Spain. Shortly after the crisis, there came a time when beyond the borders rumors began to circulate to the effect that there was being carried on here a policy of persecution against elements in disagreement. This has spread, comrades, so far that representatives of the Internationals have come to Spain to find out exactly how much truth there...
Clippers. The first fact it calls attention to is the safety and reliability of over-ocean travel-30 transatlantic seaplane test flights made in 1937, and 7,000,000 passenger miles flown over the Pacific. Then the report plunges into the economic aspects of air and sea travel, comparing the costs of a liner such as the Normandie, a dirigible 28% bigger than the late Hindenburg and a 40-passenger, 120,000-lb. flying boat.* For U. S. shipyards to build a Normandie would cost $50,000,000. A fleet of dirigibles with the same annual passenger capacity would cost...