Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sued in a local chancery court instead of in U. S. District Court, where TVA would prefer to answer his demands for: 1) $2,916.66 back salary accrued since the President fired him March 23 for obstructing TVA affairs and contumacy; 2) recognition as TVA chairman, on the ground that the President had no authority to discharge...
...measure, sells a sizable portion abroad for needed foreign exchange. Thus last year, while the nation on paper produced enough for home use, Italy in fact suffered a wheat shortage. Bakers, unable to purchase sufficient wheat flour, eked out their dough with substitutes like corn flour, bean flour, ground lentils or ground ceci, yellow, bean-like pellets. The Government legalized this adulteration up to 20% but bakers took advantage of the practice, began turning out queer tasting, colored loaves only 50% wheat flour. Public grumbling grew, scores were clapped into prison for their protests and finally Il Duce stepped...
...rescue. Before they could get their water into play, however, the flames had leaped up the wooden walls, roared through the whole flimsy structure. Panic-stricken onlookers, running away, got in the firemen's way. Two boys were burned alive, eight jumped screaming to their deaths on the ground. Four were so seriously burned that they died later in the hospital...
...from Seattle at 2:15 the same morning as the train explosion sailed Northwest Airlines Flight Four, a fast, ten-passenger Lockheed Zephyr transport airplane of the same type as that which crashed in Bridger Canyon six months before. After the Bridger Canyon crash, all such Lockheeds were ordered grounded for correction of an apparently faulty tail surface detail. The man who ordered that grounding was Bureau of Air Commerce Inspector A. L. Niemeyer. Later, all the Lockheed Zephyrs were satisfactorily corrected, were actively in the air again. Last week Inspector Niemeyer himself flew into Billings along with seven other...
Scoop covers much of the ground covered in Waugh's account of his experiences as a war correspondent, Waugh in Abyssinia. But it has one major difference. In Waugh in Abyssinia he described how he lived for some time with a mysterious Mr. Rickett. Rickett, hinting that he had important news to disclose, was so vague that Waugh, not interested, missed the best news story of the war: when Rickett got Ethiopia's oil and mineral rights from Haile Selassie. In Scoop, poor blundering William Boot is far more fortunate. He falls in love with a German girl...