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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...display of pique occurred last week on the first morning of a week-long holiday. Next day in somewhat better humor the President settled down to the tasks of an unusually trying week end. The railroad committee's report arrived and the President studied it at length. He sent to Congress, with a recommendation that it be given "most careful consideration," Hungary's proposal, made last February, to pay off its $1,685,000 Relief Loan in full but without interest. As this week's major move against Depression, the President roundly endorsed a plan proposed...
...first of a series of addresses on money and depression. "Mr. Speaker and fellow members of Congress," hopefully began gaunt, gold-toothed Representative Gray, who had informed his colleagues by letter and in the Congressional Record of his intention to take the air to harangue them at greater length than even his spectral appearance has ever induced them to listen to him from the floor...
...plant in slabs as long as 16 feet, as thick as six inches, as heavy as eight tons. Shoved into three furnaces at the beginning of the production line, the slabs are cooked to a white-hot 2250°. Then, with a thud that echoes the whole length of the plant, a slab slides from the furnaces' fiery maw onto the world's widest roller table-98 inches. Under the direction of a few men pushing buttons, it whizzes down the table considerably faster than Glenn Cunningham runs the mile. Whisssh, with a scream of scalding steam...
...older type with open front and the shorter knee length which does not wrap around the ankles is going to be used this year. The crimson piping, formerly used on the gowns of class officers, has been discarded on the grounds that it has no academic significance...
Harvard, which last year was undefeated at the sprint distances except for Navy, losing then by a third of a length, and which defeated Yale on the Thames River at New London in a record-breaking upstream race, has great prospects again this year...