Word: order
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three days later, as everyone had anticipated, the President announced that he would grant crop loans after all. To a delegation of the Senate's Agricultural Committee he promised to order the Commodity Credit Corporation to make loans of 9? or 10 ? a lb. on the new crop, pay farmers the difference between what they eventually get for their cotton and 12? a lb. Similar means will be taken to meet any serious price declines which may follow anticipated bumper crops in corn & other grains...
...year. On the other hand, the President's end of the bargain was by no means the equivalent of a ''banker's acceptance." All he got was a promise that Congress would pass a resolution to make crop control legislation the first item in the order of business at its next session...
Hell. The morning after, Leader Barkley tried to continue his harmonious and efficient drive to put through final legislation. To Vice President Garner's desk he sent a memorandum outlining the order in which bills were to be considered. After disposal of a bill for peacetime exports of helium, Senator King was to be recognized to call up the District of Columbia Airport Bill. The Helium Bill was passed as Senator King sat near Leader Barkley. He rustled his papers and prepared to get up with the Airport Bill but was slow on his feet. New York...
...Santa Fe provides "courier-nurses" on the Scout (Chicago, Kansas City, California), a coach and tourist sleeper, economy train designed to compete with busses. Sociability is subordinated to taking care of the old, the ill, youngsters traveling alone, helping mothers with infants. But in order that the Santa Fe's hostesses shall be interesting conversationalists, at least about the scenery, their training includes trips through scenic parts of the Southwest...
...usual race with a freight train for road crossings, two sensational car crack-ups and one motorcycle spill. Kennedy gets away but goes back to vindicate Jameson's faith in him when he discovers that the yard captain's interest in May is of a lofty order. Best shot: striking convicts screaming in the locked cellblocks after the lights have been turned...