Word: nationale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WASHINGTON--After only 16 minutes of debate and without a dissenting vote, the Senate today passed and sent to conference with the House a national defense bill authorising expenditure of $66,800,000 for establishment of 16 strat- egically-located naval air bases.
Now the unofficial capital for a new study spreading rapidly through U. S. schools, Stephens' Institute last week held the first national conference on consumer education. To it went some 600 teachers, admen, editors and merchants. The conference was not devoted entirely to cheering. Said Rockefeller Foundation's...
Cinema, always the most open-handed U. S. industry, outdid itself in 1937. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp. alone paid 240 salaries of $15,000 or more, and M. G. M. and its parent company, Loew's Inc., paid the two biggest salaries of all: $1,296,503 in salary...
Bankers were led by Chase National's Chairman Winthrop W. Aldrich, with $175,000.
Civic boosters are likely to damn his book, to complain at the bleakness of the picture he draws. Dilemma of Five Cities is that Author Leighton's enthusiasm for the color and gusto of U. S. life is always at war with his knowledge of the violence of much...