Word: pennsylvania
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having delighted Labor once, the Supreme Court went on to uphold the National Labor Relations Board unanimously in two cases. In both cases (involving Pennsylvania Greyhound Lines and Pacific Greyhound Lines) the issue was whether the Board could order an employer to withdraw recognition of a company union if there was no competing union in the field. Admitting that there might be situations in which such an action would not be warranted, the Court nonetheless concluded that in both cases the Board's action was an appropriate way to give effect to the policy...
...recent years attempts have been made to use infrared radiation (invisible vibration longer in wave length than visible light) to help fog-wrapped ships at sea. Some time ago Master Mariner Flavel M. Williams experimented with infrared cameras on two U. S. ships. The alert head of Pennsylvania's State police, Commissioner Percy W. Foote, decided that infrared radiation could be utilized on land as well as on sea, asked Flavel M. Williams to help him put it to work catching traffic law violators...
...copies. Meanwhile, in Maryland, big, serious, six-foot Author Allen had given up his New York story, started work on a Civil War romance of his own. But where Margaret Mitchell had taken her stand in Dixie, Pittsburgh-born Hervey Allen, whose grandfather had fought with the Sixth Pennsylvania Volunteers, took sides with the boys in blue. Traveling on foot and by auto through the Shenandoah Valley, he gathered his material as resolutely and almost as slowly as his forefathers advanced upon Richmond...
...ponderous, philosophical passages that weighed down its predecessor. It is a stirring affair of gallant colonels, devoted bodyguards, faithful wives, brave generals, beautiful horses, loyal troops, narrow escapes, magnificent scenery, bloody battles and hard riding. In it the smiling, courageous, gentle Colonel Nathaniel Franklin of the Sixth Pennsylvania Volunteers is forever leaping upon his high-spirited horse and thundering down the road-sometimes to save a Confederate lady in distress, sometimes to clean up a nest of irregulars, and sometimes, apparently, just for a little thundering...
...meteorological fad of floods began in 1936 when warm rains melted Eastern snows, flooding the Connecticut Valley and causing a second inundation of Johnstown in Pennsylvania, Heavy rainfalls always produce floods in river valleys, but Americans having a social mind no different from their political mind, are averse to avoiding trouble, whether war or flood, by doing something about it beforehand. They prefer to stick to the waiting tradition usually illustrated by young men twiddling their thumbs in the parlors of girls that will only be "a minute," and to observe that conservative custom which scorns action until there...