Word: prime
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Roosevelt's Supreme Court shocker (see p. 16) and the fateful automobile strike in Flint and Detroit (see below), the Great Flood of 1937 seeped off the nation's front pages last week. But for a half-million people along the lower Mississippi it was still prime news. From Cairo, Ill. to New Orleans an army of 125,000 reliefers, convicts and volunteers worked feverishly to raise and strengthen the thousand-mile, billion-dollar levee system which stood between them and disaster. The levees were still holding as the hump in the river's back reached...
...worth a gamble to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's government, which considers that if it can show definite tangible gains for Britain in lessened risk of war, in lessened taxes for keeping up the arms race, in getting Germany into a Western air pact and in inducing her to abandon her own ruinous war economy, the British voters would not turn it out of office...
...record rate spies with German contracts, and worrying the Nazi war staff and diplomatic chieftains by an uncanny knowledge of things which the Nazis thought were impenetrable secrets. . . . Vansittart is the only man living who knows all the Number Ones of the British Secret Service. Even the Prime Minister is denied that knowledge. But one other man is let in on the money side. He is Sir Warren Fisher, Permanent Secretary to the Treasury and Head of the Civil Service; and he does the auditing job himself...
...Prime problems he named were: 1) overcrowding of the Bar; 2) propaganda of lay agencies seeking to take away the lawyer's business; 3) the attitude of the individual lawyer toward his profession...
During 33 years with American Telephone & Telegraph Co. he became one of the two or three prime U. S. authorities on utility depreciation. For ten years he was first vice president and treasurer of Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co. in Atlanta. Now in his eleventh year as executive assistant to the Stock Exchange Committee on Stock List, Mr. Hoxsey leads a meticulously rational life. Before taking up contract four years ago he made a close study of all the systems, decided that Milton Work's was the best. When he saw the Culbertsons beat this system he suffered...