Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when the State issued an edict minutely instructing peasants upon such points as the imperative necessity of divorcing a gadabout wife. Since 1928, police have arrested some 60,000 Japanese on the charge of "thinking Dangerous Thoughts." The 22 Thought Control Offices came as a kind of relief, providing centres more comfortable than jails in which docile Japanese may learn what thoughts to have...
More men were at work in the endless miles of steel mills than in magic 1929. In smoky Homestead the Relief Office closed down last month for lack of patronage. More automobiles were sold in Allegheny County in the first six months of 1936 than in any other half-year on record. For the first time since the War Connellsville's 38,900 beehive coke ovens, now obsolete, were pouring soot into the murky atmosphere because the steel companies, short of steel scrap, needed more coke to make pig iron. Dispossessed residents of the ovens got jobs coking...
...least of the Fairchild aerial wonders are aerial contour maps, now made in a big way for the Department of Agriculture in connection with soil conservation work. In a vertical aerial photograph the earth's surface looks perfectly flat. Third dimensional relief can be obtained by the principle employed in the oldtime stereoscope. Pictures of the same area are shot from two slightly different positions, thus providing a parallax in the same way that a person's two eyes do in normal sight. The two pictures are then inserted in a super-glorified stereoscope (built with Zeiss...
...Building & Loan League, in convention at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, made what, for them, was a fine concession to Public Housing. They nodded righteous approval to a report which suggested: "If a substantial number of families cannot pay an economic rent, we recommend that the Government extend rent relief or rent subsidy, rather than follow the course of building and permanently renting to a group of citizens public accommodations...
Suggesting little of its author's cosmopolitan experience and business success, The Tallons reaches its climax when Myrtle learns that she can capture Jim Tallon's attention by making fun of his brother's love for her. To buy relief from her mockery of Andrew, Jim is attentive to her, grows more entangled, eventually marries her. But as he watches her with his brother he begins to believe that they have both tricked him, becomes insanely jealous of a woman he does not love, plunges into wild dissipation, beats his wife until his confusions are ended when...