Word: inlander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still deadlocked over Sections 11 (free press) and 14 (open shop) of the proposed newspaper code. Throughout the land the Press rumbled and shrilled at the spectre of government licensing and union censorship which it saw implied in NRA's insistence on elimination of these sections. At the Inland Daily Press Association convention in Chicago last week Publisher McCormick and Secretary Edward H. Harris of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association each pointed a fore boding finger at Germany's Press and at the cringing of U. S. Radio under the licensing lash of the Federal Radio Commission...
...rail fastenings (TIME, Oct. 16). There was a serpent beside the apple, however: the price of rails must be reduced from $40 to $35 a ton. Having pondered, the six U. S. makers of rails (Carnegie Steel, Illinois Steel, Tennessee Coal, subsidiaries of U. S. Steel; Bethlehem Steel; Inland Steel: Colorado Fuel & Iron) last week decided that the apple was tempting enough to warrant swallowing half the serpent. They posted a new price...
...wind that had smashed Cuba (TIME, Sept. 11) reached the south Texas coast one day last week, beginning with fitful, stabbing gusts and a rain that spread out fanwise across the 200-mi. shorefront from Corpus Christi to Brownsville. The gloomy curtain rolled inland over orchards and cotton fields before the lappings and lashings of the wind. Long muddy-foamed sea waves licked angrily at the shore, tumbled into the lowlands. At Corpus Christi a giant steam whistle blew its shrill warning blast at ten-second intervals. Streets were deserted, houses and storefronts had been hurriedly boarded up. The townspeople...
...Hurricane groped across the Bahama Bank north of Cuba, turned away from Cuba, killed seven in the Bahamas, turned again and struck at Cuba's northern hump. In Havana harbor, huge seas overthrew the Malecon sea wall, scattered stone blocks like spume, flooded the water- front six blocks inland to a depth of six feet. In full force the hurricane hit the port of Cardenas in Matanzas Province, swept a tidal wave over the city, sank a gunboat in the harbor, destroyed docks, warehouses and the railroad station, cut off water and light, killed 30, injured 100. Cardenas...
...Bertram Birch Geyer, 42, had built up the agency into a large and profitable business. Young Mr. Geyer is a great and good friend of Charles Franklin Kettering, General Motors' research chief. Cornerstone of the Geyer business has been several big accounts of General Motors, including Delco, Inland Manufacturing and Frigidaire, with its $5,000,000 annual appropriation. Well did Geyer Co. earn General Motors' patronage for it has handled Frigidaire's account during the years that Frigidaire sales reached the 2.500,000 mark-1,000,000 more than any other refrigerator...