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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With some hope of salvaging its industry, the Association of American Railroads three months ago voted a 15% wage cut effective July 1 (TIME, May 9). But so complex is the machinery provided by the Railway Labor Act that the A. A. R. realized it would take several months of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: First Taste | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

This was two thumping billions more than Congress voted even in 1936, when it handed out the two-billion-dollar Soldiers' Bonus. It brought the 75th Congress' spending total to $21,656,174,000 for all three sessions. It shot the net deficit for fiscal 1938 (forecast by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Work Done, Jun. 27, 1938 | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

At that point, Los Angeles County's big-nosed, big-talking, grandstanding District Attorney Buron Rogers Fitts-whom the Clinton reformers had long been attacking as fiercely as they had the mayor-unexpectedly jumped into action. He secured grand jury indictments charging beefy Captain Kynette and two aides with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Restaurant Reformers | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

Of all WPA projects, the one most lavishly encouraged by private enterprise is the Federal Theatre Radio Division. For none of its 44 series has the F.T.R.D. ever paid the radio broadcasting systems any time charges. Obligated to fill unsold air time with entertainment and edification, networks and radio stations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Gifts | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

Natives of the northern mountains of India believe that cholera is a six-handed demon with no feet. Therefore it cannot leave its habitat in India's lowlands until some traveling hillsman comes along, upon whom it can lay its many clutches. Actually the cause of cholera is a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cholera | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

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