Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House last week voted to ham-handed Martin Dies of Texas, Rightist drum major of the Leftist parade, his $100,000 expense money for further probing into UnAmerican Activities. Mr. Dies promptly went shopping for investigators, ex-G-Men preferred. But Speaker Bankhead struck one last minute blow for the Leftists. To a vacancy on the Dies Committee he appointed California's earnest young Representative Jerry Voorhis, good friend of Red Rover Amlie and, since the departure of Texas' Maury Maverick,* leader of the Young Turks in the House. Son of a millionaire, Jerry Voorhis turned down...
Last week, while major-league baseball players were polishing their golf clubs in preparation for the coming spring-training season, many a U. S. youth, with a yearlong accumulation of hard-earned nickels & dimes in his pocket, was hitchhiking south to one of the dozen baseball schools that have sprung up in the last five years. Baseball schools (geared to precede spring training) charge from $40 to $75 tuition for four-to six-week courses, make no guarantees to place graduates, serve as a showroom for talent as well as a classroom for instruction...
...sleek as freshly peeled willow. As overalled mechanics trundled her out for the warm-up at March Field one day last week she gleamed slimly among the bulb-nosed fighters, the potbellied bombers on the Army Air Corps Southern California airdrome. Major General Henry H. Arnold, greying Chief of the Air Corps, surveyed with particular approval her twin engines, Prestone-cooled V12 Allisons of 1,000 horsepower each, faired trimly into the metal wing. Well he knew that broad-beamed radial air-cooled motors, such as the big U. S. engine builders have brought to perfection, could not be used...
...lifelong bachelor, Gibbs was a quiet, modest man. At Yale, where he did his major work, most of the students not only did not know he was a great man ; they did not even know he existed. His colleagues admired him but found his recondite researches hard to understand. Like Albert Einstein, Josiah Willard Gibbs was not an experimenter but a thinker...
Other portents: Settlement of the TVA fight (TIME, Feb. 13) apparently cleared the decks for utility modernization, and last week another major purchaser of producer goods-the railroads-seemed hellbent on a spending spree. Union Pacific announced a $15,000,000 expansion program-new rails, box cars, locomotives and remodeled coaches. Missouri Pacific ordered $1,500,000 worth of rails. All told, railway-equipment manufacturers said that already this year they had received orders for 375,000 tons of rails, only 25,000 tons less than 1938's total orders...