Word: lowerers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with hearings on the Celler Bill scheduled for this week, Senator Bone's Interstate Commerce subcommittee beat the lower house to the punch by opening rival hearings on the Chavez-McAdoo Government Station Bill. The proposal is similar to the Celler Bill, except that it places the station in San Diego, Calif.; jumps Representative Celler's $700,000 construction and $50,000 maintenance ante to $3,000,000 and $100,000; omits specific provisions for domestic broadcasting; gives the Secretary of State responsibility for programs...
...overwhelming majority of U. S. passenger business is in short hauls, for which "substratosphere" flight is useless, since the time used for climbing and gliding eats up what is saved by high flight; 3) because there is little wind in the substratosphere and because prevailing winds at lower levels are westerly, highest altitudes do not make for highest speeds on West-East flights...
...named Joseph Salou, found in a companionway, was arrested. Sailor Salou confessed that he had started the fire in the cabin by dropping a cigaret. Said he: ''Overcome by realization of the enormity of my carelessness I tried to cover up by starting a fire in the lower deck linen locker, so that by giving the alarm for both fires I would be given credit for watchfulness instead of being blamed...
...Suggests Lower Wage Rates...
...remedy the housing problem, the noted economist suggests that the guaranteed interest rate of the Federal Housing Administration be reduced from five to four percent. Lower building material costs and reduced hourly wage rates are vitally necessary. "With building costs as high now as in 1926 and the national income 25 percent lower," lower," he said, "the situation is not favorable for a large expansion in housing construction...