Word: rates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...press inveighed against the bill, a thoroughly well-organized Administration bloc kept it moving forward in the Senate. When Missouri's Bennett Clark and several collaborators laboriously brought in 20 amendments, most of them excepting specific Government agencies from Presidential tampering, they were voted down at the rate of one a minute. When Virginia's Harry Byrd proposed killing the section applying to the Comptroller General, the Administration's majority against him stood at 4740-36. All this evidently made Floor Leader Alben Barkley so confident that instead of letting the bill come to a final test...
...bill to testify that Japanese boats had been observed within the three-mile limit hauling in salmon with four-mile nets, that aviators flying over the Japanese fleet had seen as many as 20,000 salmon piled on the decks of four fishing vessels, that at the present rate Alaska's salmon would not last five years. The State Department, whose agreements with Great Britain and Japan settled the similar dispute over Bering Sea seal fishing in the '80s, sent a note to Japan affirming that salmon spawned in the U. S. and protected by the Bureau...
...Association of American Railroads. Last week, in common with many another railroad bigwig, J. J. Pelley was irked beyond measure. It was not merely that U. S. railroads face their greatest crisis. It was not merely that the Interstate Commerce Commission last fortnight gave the roads a 5.3% freight rate rise instead of the 15% the A.A.R. had requested (TIME, March 21). The cinder that really got in Mr. Pelley's eye was the fact that when President Roosevelt finally held his long-promised railroad conference last week he pointedly neglected to invite J. J. Pelley or any other...
Less than continent are the christenings that Poet Rukeyser gives her books. Theory of Flight, her first, carried too many pinfeathers to rate its machine-finished title. U. S. 1* the title of her second book, is an ambitious, almost a cocksure misnomer. The book's titular material is actually a series of poems called The Book of the Dead. This series "will eventually be," Poet Rukeyser states, without batting a weather eye, "one part of a planned work, U. S. 1. This is to be a summary poem of the life of the Atlantic coast of this country...
...never had a first-rate Negro novelist. Last week the promise of one appeared. Uncle Tom's Children, the first book of a 29-year-old, Mississippi-born Negro, won a $500 prize from Story Magazine as the best creative work done by any of the 1,200 writers on the Federal Writers' Project...