Word: rates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Marriner Eccles would have liked to see the full force of the spending concentrated on industry rather than scattered between producers and consumers and an important Eccles corollary would have been a temporary lifting of the tax burden to help business help itself (see p. 18). At any rate, Federal spending, according to Mr. Roosevelt, who "planned it that way," produced one fairly good business year, 1936. In 1938, more than 11,000,000 men are again out of work and industrial indices are once more in the cellar...
Biggest check the Government have on Imperial Airways is its Empire Air Mail Program by which, at a three cent per half-ounce rate, all mail is carried by air to South Africa, India, Hong Kong and Australia. To carry the first batch of mail at the new rate from England to the East, Imperial Airways chose a Quantas pilot, 40-year-old G. U. ("Guppy") Allan, renowned in Australia as an opener of new air routes. So heavy were Pilot Allan's mailbags (8,000 Ib.) that passengers were transferred to another ship. Imperial Airways looks forward this...
...growing sons cured him of that; he worked his way back to respectability as a brakeman on the Union Pacific, retired on his pension of one dollar a day. Humorless in its domestic episodes, woodenly written except for pages of authentic railroad talk, Railroadman is nevertheless a first-rate U. S. document, the best picture going of an old-time rank & file member of the powerful Railroad Brotherhoods...
...Lincoln, with here and there in the procession a disdained Buick. At the proper spot each pauses, ejects a human cartridge or so, and moves off while the full feed belt behind fidgets for its turn. There is no hidden sheen here. No sheen in the clothing, at any rate. They are impeccable--the soft white spat, glove, nosegay--the starchy white shirt, collar, handkerchief--the black topper and morning dress coat--the sparkling shoes, still black on the soles--the pin-stripe trousers breaking at the proper inch above the instep--the soft, luxuriant Ascot--and concealed somewhere...
...concrete problems. No one occupying the top positions today ever passed up such an opportunity for practical training in their 20's and 30's. Now they are the leaders in their 40's and 50's. Your conference at Yale this spring should offer you a first-rate example of this type of training...