Word: plans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ivan Papanin glimpsed the searchlight beam from an icebreaker 40 miles away. That was the Taimyr, laboring toward them through the pack ice. At 20 miles, the going was so difficult that the Taimyr's commander thought of trying to blast a channel through the pack, but this plan was discarded as impractical. The men on the "station" marked out with flags a safe landing place on the ice near their floe, and the first contact was made by airplane...
Last week Dean Rappleye went to Chicago to the annual Congress on Medical Education & Licensure, conducted by the A. M. A., worried about a stumbling block to his plan: Young medical graduates who want to become specialists by 1940 have been unable to get medical faculties and facilities to teach them all that the twelve examining boards want them to know. There, his Commission of Graduate Medical Education, formed last December, impatient with the slow progress made by the A. M. A., appointed Wisconsin General Hospital Superintendent Robin Carl Buerki, onetime president of the American Hospital Association, to get educators...
...Canadian border.) His is concrete just heavy enough to stand up under mounted 8-inch guns. And his flowered, shrubbed and lighted super-speedways would be effective aerial guides, could quickly be shut off in sections to provide emergency landing fields. But that is not all. The Snyder plan, which would be carried out by the Department of the Interior, calls for a vast airport at each of the 18 superhighway intersections. Nor does Representative Snyder overlook patronage possibilities. He would have the Government let the job to private contractors in sections no less than 10 miles long. Unlike Senator...
Although last autumn in the interest of economy he came out against the building of public roads, President Roosevelt last week dignified the super-highway idea by endorsing Senator Bulkley's self-payment plan as a business pump primer, and by suggesting that through excess condemnation of land a mile each side of the superhighways the Government might realize a profit when land values rose...
...marrying Michael Wallace, 59, and Anabelle Banks, 52, Police Judge Chris Fox of Oakland, Calif. received a note: "Dear Judge: I'm short of cash but I will remember you when the Townsend Plan is the law of the land...