Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wage & Hour Administrator Elmer Frank Andrews, to whom businessmen pray for guidance every day, last week submitted to Franklin Roosevelt the first general report on the actual effects of the Act. Said Elmer Andrews: "Many of the earlier news reports considerably exaggerated the difficulties experienced because of the new Act. The number affected by plant layoffs is apparently not more than 30,000 to 50,000, or less than one half of 1% of the workers coming under the Act. . . . It is noteworthy that the layoffs have been concentrated in a very few industries in the South. . . . About 90% . . . were...
Meanwhile, Zionism acquired its latest and most persuasive propagandist in William B. Ziff, publisher of the U. S. magazines Popular Aviation, Popular Photography, Radio News, Amazing Stories. In The Rape of Palestine,† Author Ziff brushes aside or categorically denies all Arab arguments, directs a Zola-like series of accusations at Great Britain. His assertions...
...average U. S. citizen the promise of television means the ultimate possibility of going to the cinema in his own home, of seeing newsreels at the moment news happens. To Paramount Pictures executives it meant much the same. thing last August when they bought half interest in Allen B. DuMont Laboratories Inc., laid plans to take a potential competitor into cinema's camp...
Having hesitated for a decade to boost the Fleming boat in his ship news column or in his books because it would have meant "recommending a proprietary article," William McFee last week found himself forced by interviewers to deliver what amounted to a sales talk for his cousin's invention. Reminding his listeners that few ship passengers are experienced or horny-handed enough to handle 14-foot oars, he summed up the lever-run boat's chief advantage thus: "It can make four knots-a better speed than a trained crew of oarsmen can make-with a bevy...
Adams, described in the H.A.A. News as the most razzly-dazzly outfit in the league, has a dangerous passing combination in fullback Willard Whitman and end Bob Akerson. Whitman's heaves salvaged numerous games for the 'Coasters this fall, and were the cause of the Deacons' going down...