Word: order
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appropriation, 2) authorization to contract for $150,000,000 worth of ships, as a starter for his friend Joseph Kennedy, once head of SEC, now chairman of the Maritime Commission, charged with subsidizing the rundown merchant fleet of the U. S. into efficient operating order...
With all the drop hammers of the world pounding on the anvils of war, the U.S.A. is not the quietest member of the chorus. Last week the U. S. Army placed the largest single order for military aircraft since the World War-177 twin-motored bombers costing $11,651,948.10. To Douglas Aircraft Co., Inc. of Santa Monica, Calif., already the world's largest aircraft factory with some 10,000 hands at work, went this huge contract, bringing the Douglas backlog of orders...
Public Opinion- Biggest development of last week was the first appearance of signs that the public was ready to demand law & order and defend the right to work. In the Mahoning Valley around Youngstown, Ohio sheriffs' deputies made their first serious attempt to disarm pickets who held possession of roads around the steel plants. Meeting one night in Youngstown while pickets under police guard were demonstrating in the street below, the Youngstown city council by vote of 6-to-1 granted Mayor Lionel Evans full authority to increase the police force and buy as much additional equipment...
...police chief gave the pickets two minutes to get out and marched back to his troops. The two minutes was stretched to two hours before the police fired a volley of tear gas shells. This had no effect except that the pickets brandished clubs in defiance. In good order the police and deputies then marched up six abreast, delivered a well-aimed volley of vomiting gas grenades before which the pickets fled...
Carlo, a history professor at University of Florence, was banished to Italy's Lipari Islands in 1926, escaped to Paris in 1929, joined his brother who had also found Italy too hot for him. Carlo's anti-Fascist activities caused an order for his banishment from France in 1931, but he obtained successive prolongations of his residence permit, and when Leon Blum's Popular Front Government came into office his haven seemed secure...