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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House, notwithstanding the hankering of the White House Janizariat for John W. McCormack, of Boston's famous Ward 8. Last week Lindsay Warren, working glove-smooth with Leader Sam Rayburn of Texas, Whip Paddy Boland of Scranton, Pa., delivered the South bound-and-gagged to the New Deal. John McCormack broke a long and agonized silence on the embargo-repeal issue to deliver only a speech. In it he demanded that the U. S. recall its Ambassador from Moscow (see p. 15). Score at week's end: Warren I, McCormack...
Only one boat slid out of New York's harbor as the President signed his proclamation - the 5,029-ton freighter Black Gull, of the Black Diamond Lines, bound for Rotterdam and Antwerp via the English Channel. But within 48 hours the Maritime Commission had tentatively approved an application from the United States Lines to transfer registry of nine ships to the Republic of Panama. Under Panamanian registry they could go merrily on carrying cargoes to Europe's belligerents...
Jobbers. To one class of U. S. citizens, however, the new act brought no pain whatsoever. The mushrooming aircraft industry greeted the news with a figurative tooting of factory-whistles: hauled out blueprints for a big war trade, prepared to jump capacity to peak-load production and tie it there. The Big Three of California plane-making-Lockheed, Douglas, North American-prepared to take on from 2,000 to 10,000 men to get out $110,000,000 worth of accumulated orders, with millions more to come. Without plant expansion the numerous California companies can build more than 700 aircraft...