Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tanks, America's most purposeful playboy, Howard Hughes, at the controls, and a wad of gum on her tail for luck, a silver Lockheed monoplane roared up off Floyd Bennett Field, Long Island, one hot evening this week. The New York World's Fair 1939 was bound for Paris with a crew of four-Navigator Harry P. M. Connor, veteran of Captain Erroll Boyd's Montreal-London hop in 1930; Navigator Lieut...
...another taking bearings from ships at sea, and a new periscopic drift indicator perfected by Lieutenant Thurlow, Flier Hughes let a gyro-pilot do most of the flying, chatted every half hour or so over a powerful radio transmitter to a base at the New York World's Fair that was using a towering trylon of that future exhibition for an antenna...
Ostensible purpose of the Hughes Flight was to bid foreign aviators to come to the New York World's Fair, to which Hughes is aeronautical adviser. But most people knew that Howard Hughes had for months been planning a world flight, and some of them knew that what kept him from starting off long ago was Governmental unwillingness to let him fly into curious foreign lands with new and strictly U. S. flying instruments. Another stumbling block was the unwillingness of foreign lands to let anyone fly over with cameras possibly spotting military secrets. But eight hours after...
...many a hard-working businessman, scornful of boondoggling, the letters WPA mean We Putter Away. Last week the Works Progress Administration ceased preliminary puttering, began work on a project to delight every manufacturer and merchant in the land. Businessmen have been increasingly confused by 44 Federal and State fair-trade laws, by a jungle of anti-price-discrimination statutes. Governmental agencies such as the Federal Trade Commission have wondered just how much these 20th Century laws have improved or hampered trade, how much they have raised the cost of living. In April, WPA announced that it would find out, through...
...work will have two aims. A legal division will for the first time summarize in one book all State and Federal antitrust laws, fair-trade laws, laws on advertising, on trademarks, on chain stores, on co-operative marketing. An economic division will try to find what effects these laws have upon consumer costs, distribution, chain-store growth, etc. In charge is lean Augustus Heath Martin Jr., who was successively sales-promotion and wholesale manager for Chrysler and Willys-Overland and southeastern manager for Union Bag & Paper Corp., joined the Administration as coordinator for the National Bituminous Coal Commission. He first...