Word: fields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more tapping at present. But, because the decision apparently affected only the use of wire tapping for evidence and the Federal Communications Act is limited to interstate messages, Federal agencies may still have use for their equipment, which is stored in a common fund in Washington and shipped to field operatives in plain wooden boxes. To determine whether the results of intrastate tapping are admissible as evidence, the Department of Justice announced that material it has gathered regarding a Washington gambling syndicate headed by one Abe Plisco, alias Jewboy Dietz, might soon be used in a test case...
Despite this misfortune, Marshall Field & Co. now has no big worries. Profits last year amounted to $2,878,000, small beside the bonanza $10,000,000 of 1927, but attractive compared to an $8,000,000 loss in 1932. And Chairman McKinsey's widow and twin sons need not worry about the necessities of life. Though James McKinsey was a professor and died at only 48, he left some...
...flying the Atlantic next summer on commercial schedule, but the company has been severely criticized as a monopoly; in 1939 its profitable South American mail contracts expire and are unlikely to be renewed at the present high rate. "Therefore the only present medium of investment in the promising foreign field is the stock of a company which is facing a major crisis in the not far distant future...
Last month President Cardenas neatly split the opposition by a deal with Mexican Eagle Oil Co. (an affiliate of British Royal Dutch-Shell, which controls 60% of Mexican oil production), yielding it full control of the rich Poza Rica field in return for royalties of 15% to 35% of the petroleum produced (TIME...
...betweens who sign up U. S. lecturers, arrange speaking dates, collect from local committees, are a tightly-knit, secretive, high-pressure group of Manhattan agents who have field representatives scattered throughout the U. S. They get 25% of lecture fees, 50% if they also supply railroad fare. Biggest of the four firms dominating the field is that of William Colston Leigh, burly, smartly-dressed Manhattan businessman who handles Carl Sandburg, Mrs. Roosevelt, some 37 other ranking literary figures. Oldest in the business is William ("Pop") B. Feakins, whose 35 authors, including leftists like John T. Flynn and rightists like Lawrence...