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...good to know all about the wayward economics of big business that caused the Depression, and about the NRA, unemployment curves, the deprivations of the Dust Bowl and Social Security. But what about the time Huey Long met Ina Ray Hutton? Moments like this-of which there are many in Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?-may not change history, but they can bring it close as no transcript or statistic can. It is the unproclaimed thesis of this breezy, weightless chronicle of the Depression that time is the sum of events great and small, and that the footnotes...
Textron Inc. 's Bell Helicopter Division (Fort Worth), Huey and Cobra combat helicopters; $60.3 million...
...town sprayed its roosting flock with a detergent that, in combination with the rain, removed insulating oil from the birds' feathers. Cold weather did the rest: 20% of the birds died. A few nights later, the Army went to work at Fort Campbell without waiting for rain. Huey helicopters sprayed the blackbirds with detergent, then fire trucks doused them with water. Meanwhile, the birds at the Milan arsenal have been left alone-until the next rainy cold spell. But the Army still stands a good chance of losing the war. The surviving blackbirds proliferate so rapidly that huge...
...complicated proof problems. Bribery, conflict-of-interest and conspiracy prosecutions usually contain gray areas easily exploited by defense attorneys. Then Samuel Skinner, now Thompson's chief deputy, came across a 1941 case in Louisiana in which a federal mail-fraud statute was used to prosecute former associates of Huey Long. The defendants had happened to use the mail in the collection of inflated fees for a bond deal. Thompson's men looked closely and with growing delight. The law provided a maximum sentence of $1,000 and five years for anyone who used the mail in any "scheme...
...would have been just as massive if it had been centered around some other political prisoner. The era of massive political protests was still in full force and during the previous year there had been a number of strong defense committees set up for several comrades--the Soledad Brothers, Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, Erica Huggins. But the millions of people who signed petitions and donated money to over 200 chapters of the National United Committee to Free Angela Davis represented by far the largest and most cohesive movement of its kind...