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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...privilege will not apply on the occasions of special House dinners, it was learned. If unexpected loads on any of the House dining halls occur too frequently, it may be necessary to require advance notice or else limit the number of guests at any one time...
Furthermore, civilian netting in rural and small-town North Carolina did not answer the defense questions of Manhattan, Pittsburgh, Chicago, San Francisco, around which lie vast patchworks of smaller cities, replete with well nigh indispensable lights, ground noises to dull groundling ears, an appalling number of dispersed targets for enemy hunters. Army men neatly turned this fact to their publicity uses. In North Carolina was concentrated all the modern antiaircraft equipment east of the Rocky Mountains. Twenty-four guns, in six batteries, were barely enough to defend the 1½-square mile objective marked off at Fort Bragg...
...under Dearborn and State Streets, a block apart, with communicating passenger tunnels connecting their continuous platforms at seven consecutive "Loop" streets. Effect of the system when promised unification of Chicago's transit lines is achieved will be to speed up "L" time by making possible a reduction in number of overhead trains, and to relieve congested street cars and bus lines in the newly tapped districts...
...paintings by U.S. and European artists; last fortnight all the paintings were expertly hung in the Institute's 16 lofty galleries. For five days last week the galleries remained locked to all except a few silent critics. Then one rainy night Pittsburgh's best people to the number of 4,000 crowded into the Institute, swished up the marble stairs and into the presence of contemporary...
...Curtis Publishing Co. of Philadelphia, venerable, opulent, conservative, next week gets cautiously down on its hands and knees to play with the moppets of America: It issues the first monthly number of Jack and Jill for a predominantly illiterate public, children aged ten and under. Only addition to the roster of Curtis magazines since 1911 when the Country Gentleman was purchased, and latest product of the Curtis Co.'s ambition to service the American Family from top to bottom, the November issue of Jack and Jill (40,000 copies) runs to 48 seven-by-ten-inch pages, illustrated with...