Word: objects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the fabulous projects instigated by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, none has been more controversial than the $7,000,000 system of elevators and staircases installed at 170-foot Bonneville Dam for the convenience of fish. Object of the system is to enable Columbia River salmon to pursue their four-year life cycle: hatch in gravel beds in the river's upper tributaries, grow several inches, drift down to the ocean tailfirst, get to weigh anywhere from 10-to 60 lb., swim back up the Columbia River to spawn and die exactly where they started. The system, consists...
...Program is to be embodied this week in a master resolution and in U. S. Communists' first generally published constitution. Both were drafted by the National (formerly Central) Committee and the Polbureau, were then O.K.'d by State conventions. Chief object of both documents is to put down in black and white the Reds' assurance that they mean well by all good Democrats, harm to none. Constitutional excerpts...
...State. Big companies have dominated more territory than this, however, through prospecting permits and operating contracts with prospectors. Last week Secretary of the Interior Ickes ruled that the companies must include such territory in their list of holdings and (he total must cleave to the law. Object: to keep down overproduction, give wider scope to the small independents...
...second event, the 360 degree spot landing the object was to land as close as possible on the far side of a line, on the ground after crossing the line headed into the wind at an altitude of 1500 feet and throttling down the mator. Carl P. Wickstrom ap. was leading, having landed within 66 feet of the line, when strong gusts and a dangerously low ceiling halted the meet...
...Earth, a collection of photographs illustrating economic laws; the reviewer was baldish, bearded Critic Ernest Boyd. In a milky, translucent square of light in the television receiving apparatus, the audience could make out the figure of Critic Boyd, his features hidden in shadows, as he faced some indistinguishable framed object on the studio wall and began his review by exclaiming nervously, "Ah, Johann Gutenberg!" Intermittently photographs from the book were flashed on the screen: pictures of the unemployed, of banks, of labor-saving machinery. Some were clear, some blurred, a few merely smears and jagged lines. When Critic Boyd announced...