Word: networks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Treasury-in-charge-of-Prohibition Seymour Lowman, and his Prohibition Bureau director, James Maurice Doran. This year enforcement was taken out of their hands, transferred to the Department of Justice (TIME, July 7). Last week Assistant-Attorney-General-in-charge-of-Prohibition Gustaf Aaron Youngquist made a radio-network speech and his Prohibition Bureau director, Amos Walter Wright Woodcock made a statement. Speech and statement amounted to: "More men. More money. Co-operation from State enforcement agencies...
...year and one-half ago Engineer Hoover Jr. was engaged by Western Air Express to set up its communications system. Starting with three small stations between Salt Lake City and Los Angeles, he now directs a network of 27 stations spread over western U. S., guiding radio-equipped planes along 15,000 mi. of airways. His staff numbers 75 engineers, researchers, operators, maintenance men. On his advice, Western Air bought $200,000 worth of airplane radio equipment. From communications chief he was last month promoted to chief engineer of the company (TIME, June...
...efforts of Chairman Legge, his Farm Board and its network of cooperatives could not hold up wheat prices. The July figure in Chicago slumped to $1 per bu.-7? below last year's mark. Traders in the pit spoke of a "panicky feeling." Growers out in the country wondered when, if ever, the Farm Board would get them better prices. Meanwhile the National Grain Corp. braced itself to handle 300 million bushels of wheat (about one-third of the crop total) through its elevators and co-operative agencies. From Hall-Baker Co. in Kansas City it hired Paul Bartlett...
...Halliburton offered to buy 1,000 trimotored Ford monoplanes "or their equivalent in performance," to establish a nation-wide network of passenger air lines -to make people fly. The first 100 planes, he said, were to be delivered at the rate of two per week, at $20,000 per plane less than the current price...
Already in second place with 8,682 contributing alumni, the campaign began with a big alumni dinner in Manhattan from which, as in the Yale drive, speeches were broadcast over a network of 19 stations. The speakers: President Livingston Farrand; onetime (1892-1920) President Jacob Gould Schurman, retired U. S. Ambassador to Germany; Myron Charles Taylor (Cornell, 1894), Chairman of the Finance Committee of U. S. Steel Corp., who recently gave $1,500,000 for a new Cornell Law School. With 41,000 living alumni (5,000 more than Yale), Cornellians felt confident of "a rather unique intercollegiate championship...