Word: presenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...challenge' and that responsibility for complete recovery has now been shifted to Business. . . . Substantial and sound recovery depends on further positive action by Congress." . . . But he did add: "I know it is not necessary to urge that all members of the N. A. M. examine carefully their present and near-future production demands. . . . Industry must do its utmost, within the limitations of permissible volume of production, to translate relief rolls into payrolls...
...notice that the U. S. military now wants its standing Army to be a fighting army, at least to the extent of five fully equipped divisions on constant peacetime call. Also on the military agenda, now that Congress has voted $961,293,102 to expand and equip the present Army, is a request for many more millions to stock complete equipment for a wartime force...
...There are not enough hotels in Alaska even to meet the present tourist trade...
...significant: before adjourning three weeks ago Congress authorized (although it has yet formally to appropriate) the expenditure of $277,000,000 to build a third set of locks (see map). These will: 1) take care of 45,000-ton battleships, now abuilding, which will be too big for the present locks, 2) provide an alternate route if one set of locks should be wrecked by enemy bombing planes. Meantime, the Army announced a plan to spend $53,000,000 on new defenses in the Canal Zone. For the Canal's second quarter-century may be as important...
...London and the provinces. They employ 4,000 bicycling newsboys, operate a fleet of 400 big red trucks. Head of this vast near-monopoly is the black-mustached, punctiliously correct Viscount Hambleden, grandson of an office boy who was adopted by the first Smith's son. The present Lord Hambleden is religious, pacifistic, nervous. Last month three raffish young British pilots drew indefinite suspensions from the Royal Air Force after they had released streamers of toilet paper over his Thames Bank estate...