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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since REA provides for no yardstick competition and many a utility company should profit by the sale of additional electricity in districts where it does not now care to risk its own money on transmission lines, power companies raised little objection to the Norris bill. Only serious kick last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER: More Abundant Light | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

Braman Gibbs is a veteran centerfielder and .300 hitter. Flanking him in left stands Ben Prouty, a left handed swinger who hits through third base, a natural second man in any batting order. But in right field there is a void. Jim Sullivan can field the position but can't...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 4/18/1936 | See Source »

It announced that a "congenial atmosphere" for counterproposals had vanished. Nevertheless that afternoon Ambassador Ribbentrop was handed 22 pages of German typescript. With his brother-in-law, Foreign Office Division Chief Dr. Hans-Heinrich Dieckhoff, and 26 other experts, he led the huge German delegation by air to London. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Plan v Plan v Plan | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

Last week the U. S. Supreme Court handed down its first decision on the Securities Act of 1934. The case originated last year after J. Edward Jones, dealer in oil royalties, filed a registration statement with the Securities & Exchange Commission. Summoned to explain his facts & figures, Royalist Jones suddenly changed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Royalist Victory | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

Ralegh was the greatest failure of the Elizabethan age, and outside his native Devon the most hated man in England. His rocket-like career came down like a dead stick, but there was a star-burst before the end. Ralegh was a gentleman but not a noble, and both the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Great Failure | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

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