Word: major
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...station in cutaway & silk hat drove Franklin Roosevelt, beaming. "It's wonderful!'' said he to Major Ernest Brown. Washington's police superintendent. "It's a great turnout and I am so pleased...
Because its majority is divided and because he had no new idea to spring, Franklin Roosevelt signalized this session of Congress by not demanding of it some major program to improve society. His "appeasement" of Business for recovery, now a bad joke, was to have been an executive job done by Harry Hopkins, whose performance was crippled by intestinal flu. In fighting with Congress for larger Relief appropriations than it was willing to give, the President has slowed up other legislation. And though the President's critics are doubtless unjust when they say that he has been plugging foreign...
...feet he and his navigator, husky, thin-haired Major Mikhail Gordienko, were using oxygen. Doggedly Hero Kokkinaki held his red ship, the Moskva, on its course. Near sundown, with no sight of sky or sea, his radio was frying with static like a pan of pork chops. Hopelessly lost, he turned Moskva back on its course. Finally with little more than two hours' fuel in the tanks, with oxygen running low, he fainted. Gordienko took over...
...sharply curtailed budgets for capital investment in new plants. General Motors will invest $10,000,000 for expansion, a little more for improvement, in 1939 against $60,000,000 for expansion and improvement in 1937. U. S. Steel will invest $25,000,000 against $67,000,000 in "the major depression year...
...Every operation on the left eye caused a hemorrhage. Finally Dr. Alfred Vogt of Zurich succeeded in making an artificial pupil for the left eye, set in below the position of the normal pupil. The cataract on Joyce's right eye has meanwhile developed. He has had eleven major operations on his eyes, all without anesthetics, faces another soon. But he sees far better than he did ten years...