Word: interior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, after years of promotion by Californians, the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation (Department of the Interior) gave the go-ahead signal to Pacific Constructors, Inc., a 12-company syndicate which successfully bid $35,939,450 for the erection of Shasta Dam. Final moneys for this purpose were voted by the last Congress. The project, which will do for Northern California what Herbert Hoover's Boulder Dam does for Southern California, is now entirely financed by the Federal Government, which hopes to get the money back from water sales in 40 years...
...proud of their race, turn Italians with an inferiority complex into "Romans." The Moscow News's cartoonist observed in this move definite signs of race-proud Nazi incubation. This work of creating 20th Century Romans was handed over last week to a new department under Minister of the Interior Benito Mussolini named the Superior Council for Democracy and Race...
...conceivably take place if there were a layer of material near the earth's surface which was at a critical temperature (one in which a small change of temperature produces a relatively large change of volume). Thus a slight change in the temperature of the earth's interior would produce a considerable alteration of the crust. How the earth contracts and expands Dr. Brown could only speculate. Evidence for his theory lies in the fact that the fissures all over the earth (such as occur in mountain building) constantly repeat their openings and closings. Last advice of Astronomer...
...subjects range from accountancy to zoology. They are supposed to cover a high-school and college education. National Educational Alliance's catholic curriculum includes such subjects as art, archeology, biology, literature, writing, interior decorating, photography, psychology, languages, philosophy. There are no courses in handcrafts or trades, because the alliance believes enough schools and publications already teach these...
...strong man, Colonel Fulgencio Batista, shows much concern over the common people. Although he holds no elective office, benevolent Tyrant Batista often leaves the studied luxuries of Havana and, like Mexico's Lázaro Cárdenas, gets firsthand impressions in the decidedly less comfortable interior. Cuba's economic pains, including unemployment, have been only partly cured by the U. S. Good Neighbor policy which reduced the U. S. tariff on the island's big product, sugar. Last week, Colonel Batista moved to help Cuba's unemployed. He did not plan bond issues, increased taxation...