Word: rea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...CURTAIN FOR CRIME-M. P. Rea-Crime Club ($2). A series of department-store murders wrings the heart of Salesgirl Linda Thorne, who fears that her blonde roommate or her young man may be guilty. It starts with a bash in the drapes...
...rural-electrification program. During the first half of Ivens' casual 36-minute report, the Parkinsons plod through their chores with such outmoded equipment as kerosene lamps, a wood-burning stove, a backyard privy, an old hand pump to the water well. One day the farmers are told about REA's cooperative units for bringing electricity to remote areas. In a nonce, poles go up, wires are strung into the farms (Voice: "long wires-there's a tune as the wind blows through the wires") and work soon becomes a matter of flipping a switch. The Parkinsons stand...
...average U. S. county there are now about 100 agents of various Government farm agencies (REA, FSCC, SCS, AAA, the Farm Security Administration); farmers' dislike for red tape and regimentation has not decreased; farmers' complaints range from charges that Queen Anne's lace grows on the land set aside from production to the charge that the grain stored in the ever normal granary breeds insects who never were given such a bounty to fatten on before. Since debt is a reality to foreclosure-conscious farmers, fear of the mounting public debt means more than it does...
...unordered Army planes). The Navy's chief shipbuilder, Rear Admiral Samuel M. Robinson, testified that, despite difficulties, "we have been able to go ahead with our shipbuilding program . . . we are not being held up." He was contradicted next day by Rear Admiral William Rea Furlong, who told the same Senate sub-committee that the shipbuilding program had been seriously held up ("progress has stopped on the procurement of materials that go into the ships"). Two of his examples: U. S. Steel Corp. had postponed construction of a $4,000,000 mill to make Navy steel; subcontractors refused to make...
...Balkans. These conditions would also be watched by the U. S. commission. Said Mr. Lippmann: "It does then seem a bit premature . . . for anyone to begin talking as if a fine humanitarian plan of relief was being opposed by the British and the American Governments ... Is there any good rea son to think that Hitler would permit Mr. Hoover to exercise any such control as Mr. Hoover proposes...