Word: plans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...indication of the value which his foreign employer put on Mr. Rumrich was his salary: $50 a month. But he had cherished at least one melodramatic and incredible plan, which his superiors prudently quashed before he had a chance to try it. It was to lure Colonel Henry W. T. Eglin from his post with the 62nd Coast Artillery at Fort Totten, N. Y. to a Manhattan hotel, where he would have been induced, either by plump Fraulein Hofmann or by violence, to surrender certain "secret mobilization plans...
...Oklahoma a No. 1 centre of easy money crusades, including the Townsend Movement, whose Cherokee-blooded onetime Vice President Gomer Smith Oklahoma last year elected to Congress. Last week it appeared, however, that some dishonest Oklahomans had found another bounty, the Social Security Board's old age assistance plan...
...public hearings before the Board last week blame for the State of Oklahoma's rolls appeared to rest on: 1) political subordinates, 2) Indians, 3) the possibility that Oklahoma's politicians had encouraged old folks to confuse their program with the Townsend plan. Whatever the cause, Oklahoma's oldsters had leaped onto the bandwagon with a vengeance. One pensioner, a physician, had just bought a new Ford for cash. A pensioned blacksmith owned his own shop, a car, two lots, owed no debts or back taxes. Of 47 ineligibles on the rolls in one county, 20 were...
...sometimes difficult or impossible for police in patrol cars to read the license plates of a speeder because of headlight glare, fog, murk or because the lamp supposed to illuminate the license plate is extinguished. But such conditions would not affect infrared radiation. Last week Commissioner Foote's plan was to install in patrol cars infrared cameras which would snap a picture of the license plate of a car ahead under the worst conditions. By means of a mirror arrangement the patrol car's speedometer will be included in the picture, thus giving a record of the speeder...
...always holds aloof from cooperation with the rest of the industry in any national enterprise. A. M. A. President Macauley was therefore greatly surprised to receive a visit from new Ford Sales Manager John Raymond Davis only ten days after the White House conference. Sales Manager Davis had a plan for joint action by all the makers including Ford. The A. M. A. directors took only 45 minutes to give it their okay. A straight-forward promotional scheme, the Ford plan means a one-week blare of 170,000,000 separate advertising messages via radio, magazine, billboard and newspaper aimed...