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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the front page where his President's words are recorded, John Investor got a far different impression. "I have received a disturbing letter from the Administrator for the Petroleum Industry, Hon. Harold L. Ickes, informing me of the continued daily production of oil in excess of the maximum amount determined on by the Administrator," President Roosevelt wrote last week to interested House and Senate committees. "Records of the Bureau of Mines during the first three months of this year show a daily average production of 'illegal' oil of 149,000 barrels. Technically speaking, this...
...Bank loans of $530,000,000, no single RFC loan to exceed $1,000,000. As amended by the House last week the bill limited the total to $440,000,000, no RFC loan to exceed $100,000. As the measure went to conference, a compromise at $500,000 maximum per loan seemed likely...
...table tops. Aviators had to climb 15,000 ft. to get above the pall. A dust storm 900 mi. wide, 1,500 mi. long swept out of the drought-stricken West. In dust-darkened Chicago excited Board of Trade brokers bid up wheat prices 5? in one day (the maximum), raised the price to 93? a bu.-up 17? in two weeks. That day 6,000 tons of finely divided wheat fields fell on Chicago's roofs and sidewalks. And the dust swept on, until its thick haze could be seen from the windows of the Department of Agriculture...
...hold big Roscoe Turner, Hollywood's favorite flyer. Unofficially broken was the official world's land-plane speed record (304.98 m.p.h.) held by James R. Wedell, who built Turner's plane. A huge dust storm over the Alleghenies cut Turner's speed from a maximum of 340 m.p.h...
...adding Latin to the list of languages necessary for a Doctor's degree, the English department has acted contrary to what are considered the latest trends in education. Last spring Andover Academy announced a reduction of its Latin curriculum to a maximum of three years. With that announcement it was generally believed that Harvard would be forced to follow suit and ease up on its entrance requirements. Last week Williams College, when it elected Tyler Dennett as its next president, also reduced its entrance requirements to two years...