Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like many another Southerner [the undersigned] cannot overlook TIME'S studied efforts to place the Negro on the same mental and social plane with the white, nor TIME'S never-passed-up policy of printing Negro pictures and praising Negro effort to the skies. CHAS. A. GUY Editor and Publisher Lubbock Morning Avalanche Lubbock Evening Journal Lubbock...
...cinema industry every time California proposes a new tax on cinema production. Last week the California Legislature was considering a 35% income tax that would affect all cinema studios. President Joseph M. Schenck of United Artists, accompanied by wily little Alfred Cleveland Blumenthal, real estate man, boarded a Manhattan plane for Miami. In Miami, Producer Schenck, who said he was also acting for MGM's Louis B. Mayer, proposed that Florida- which recently ratified an amendment exempting cinema companies from taxes for 15 years-should also build $10,000,000 worth of cinema studios by popular subscription, rent them...
...bonds to retire $44,636,000 in securities due in 1952. P. G. & E. was in a great hurry to get its registration to Washington. Carrying duplicate copies, P. G. & E. officers climbed into two airplanes in San Francisco, headed across the Sierras. One plane was grounded in Sacramento, the other was forced down at Cheyenne. Its passengers chartered a third plane, reached Washington just before midnight to find that SEC had obligingly kept its offices open...
...Fisher, well known author of fiction and magazine contributor under the name of Dorothy Canfield, was just entering a plane at the Chicago air field yesterday on her way to Albany when she received word from the Association...
...plane made one three-hour flight yesterday, starting at 4:56 a.m. It soared 170 miles out over the Pacific through fog banks, contacting ships to establish its course. Then, with its windows blackened to give complete "blind flying" conditions, it took off at 1:45 p.m. for another seaward flight, returning...