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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Farm Loan Interest. Only major veto of the session was placed by Franklin Roosevelt on a bill to extend for two years the "emergency" rate of 3½% on Federal Land Bank loans to farmers. Last week both Houses overrode the President...
Regional Planning. The creation of seven "little TVA's" throughout the land is the dream of Senator Norris of Nebraska, who sired big TVA. The President put this program on his Must list for the special session last fall, let it be forgotten when the ruckus within TVA broke out. Last bill on the subject submitted was "National Planning Act of 1938" by Representative Joseph Mansfield of Texas, which proposed to curb floods, improve navigation, conserve water, soil, forests, etc., did not mention Power...
This week, to insure the Japanese against outraging noncombatants, General Ugaki laid out a vast no-man's land- all territory east of an imaginary line from Sian, in Shensi, to Pakhoi, on the Gulf of Tong-king close to French Indo-China -which he asked foreigners to evacuate...
...Yellow River to flood is nothing new. Its Chinese name, Hwang Ho, is taken from hwang tu, the "yellow dirt" which it carries down in great quantity from Shansi and Shensi. This pale silt is constantly being dropped on the riverbed, which consequently steadily rises above the adjoining land. To keep the river in line the Chinese have long built dikes. Rising floor and walls have made the river an aqueduct, lifted its surface at high water as much as 30 feet above the surrounding plain. So frequently has the ochre stream cracked its dikes and devastated the countryside that...
...Same afternoon in Santa Monica, Calif., the biggest U. S. land plane ever built, Douglas Aircraft's 32¼-ton, 42-passenger DC-4 had its first trial flight. Day before it had been close to disaster, when one of its massive doughnut tires sprang a leak during ground tests...