Word: orders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...addition to some 450,000 indexed folders of biographical, historical, business and otherwise usefully classified information. * The answers, in order: 1) Yellow Kid by Richard Outcoult, in the New York World; 2) 280 days; 3) Yes. At the 1924 convention in New York City; 4) Not even the wisest hagiologist knows; 5) lotus blossoms, phlox pods, the squirting cucumber of southern Europe; 6) average cost of a Class 6 battleship: $92,122,100; 7) an estimated...
Returning to their seats in the Chamber, they attacked the government for railroading the reform bill through the Congress before the country had a chance to study it. "We are watching the destruction of Parliament," cried Radical Deputy Alfredo R. Vitolo. "Remember a whole generation was lost in order that we should have this Constitution," warned Raul Urgana. Another Radical shouted: "We want a reform for the people and not for the President." From 4 o'clock in the afternoon until 2:50 the next morning the opposition fought a futile delaying action. Then the bill was passed...
Since Hiroshima, the U.S.'s fear for the safety of the Panama Canal has trebled and quadrupled. At the order of Congress, the Canal Zone's governor has prepared a six-volume report on how to protect the vital Atlantic-Pacific short cut from atomic bombs. Army Secretary Kenneth Royall, on the hunt for alternate canal routes, last winter flew all over the country between Colombia and the Tehuantepec Isthmus in Mexico...
...Order to Suspend. CAB, which has let the wildcats pretty much alone, knows that the flying public likes bargain fares. It also knows that popular opinion favors competition. But CAB's mandate is to develop "a stable air transport system," and CAB knows that where the scheduled lines have to make their regular flights full or empty, and maintain many a money-losing run for "public necessity," the irregulars wait for full planeloads and raid only heavy-money runs...
That was why CAB last week ordered Wildcatter Weiss to suspend all operations, declared it would register no additional wildcat lines, ordered an investigation into all wildcat "practices and activities." Weiss, whose airline faces a death sentence if the CAB order sticks, went into court, and got a ten-day stay of execution. Without blocking a metaphor, he argued that the airlines were angry because wildcatters had "pulled the ground out from under them," added that he was "not going to be shouted out of business by [an] octopus...