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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months ago, editors, columnists, economists and a few brave politicians have devoted thousands upon thousands of words to denouncing it, ridiculing it, exposing its fallacies. Except to advertise it, all this has had no effect whatever on the Plan. Terrifying to Congressmen, the ranks of Old Age Revolving Pensions, Ltd. have swelled & swelled as oldsters from coast to coast planked down their 10?-per-month dues in the happy faith that they would soon be getting back $200 per month from the Government. Last week the Townsend legion fell victim to the disaster which has humbled many a proud army...
Henry Hughes & Son, Ltd...
...what raised British Labor's blood to boiling point last week- the White Paper would virtually put industry throughout the British Isles on a basis of Wartime control by the Government over the activities of Capital & Labor. Under a Prime Minister who is the leisured scion of Baldwins Ltd., hereditary British iron founders, Labor considered itself sure last week to get the meagre end of a generous square deal for Capital. Under the White Paper scheme, selected British firms capable of armament production would be guaranteed in peace time sufficient Government orders to keep their works operating profitably, ready...
...London last week British Broadcasting Corp. and Baird Television Ltd. rushed preparations to open an experimental television station this month in Alexandra Palace atop a hill in North London. About July 1, when manufacturers have had a chance to test their sets, the station is expected to start three-hour daily programs. British enthusiasts, who call themselves "televiewers," have been promised sets...
Farnsworth Abroad. Year and a half ago Britain's Parliament, deigning to give ear to the television buzz, appointed a committee to find out what Baird Tele vision Ltd. had to offer. Baird was still puttering with mechanical scanners. Fearing the snorts of the committee, Baird sent a frantic SOS to Philo Farnsworth. That tireless young man sped to England and signed a patent lease agreement, with the result that spectators in London's lofty Crystal Palace viewed a fashion show, a horse show, a boxing match, a Mickey Mouse cartoon, all televised from ten miles away. Television...