Word: flows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hands were folded over his paunch and his pale drawn face, with its puffy, unblinking eyes, was a mask of haughty indifference. Senators, exalted from their role of legislators to that of judges in a court from which there is no appeal, listened hour after hour to the flow of evidence, but could make no speeches. Now & then one of them would scribble a question on a bit of paper, send it up to the dais to be put to a witness. As presiding justice Vice President Garner monotonously ruled evidence in & out of the record. The atmosphere...
Chairman Morgan's assigned objectives are as follows: 1) flood control works along the Tennessee River to even up its flow between a March torrent and an October trickle; 2) a 9-ft. channel for navigation from Knoxville to Paducah (650 mi.); 3) reforestation of marginal lands to prevent soil erosion and to supply the next generation with a timber crop; 4) decentralization of industry so that Tennessee Valley residents may live on farms while working in factories; 5) manufacture of fertilizer; 6) production and distribution of cheap hydroelectric power. For these purposes the Tennessee Valley Authority is permitted...
Every energetic newshawk has pipelines of information which flow only so long as they remain hidden. A brave newshawk would sooner go to jail-and sometimes he does-than violate journalism's law: Never expose your pipelines. Last week the Governor of New Jersey signed a bill giving the Press the same right of protecting confidences that is enjoyed by the medical and legal professions. It provides that the newsman need not make known to any county grand jury, legislative committee or other investigating body the source of information obtained by him and published in his paper. A similar...
...these loans are not repaid the U. S. Government will some day find itself the proprietor of most of the railroads in the land. In his campaign speech at Salt Lake City last year Franklin Roosevelt put the carriers on notice that they could not look for an unlimited flow of credit from his Administration. He was ready to help them through the slump but they, in turn, must accept more drastic Federal supervision...
...might attempt to limit. The U. S. Farm Relief Bill, now before the Senate, looks to a cut in domestic wheat-growing which may set an example at London. Major oil producers met in Washington fortnight ago, recommended action to the White House which would hold the U. S. flow down to 2,000,000 bbl. per day. Many have been the conferences between producers of copper, nitrate and rubber during the last several years in vain attempts to control output, raise prices. At London such attempts may become accomplishments...