Word: repairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time an evil gets into a proverb it is generally old and notorious beyond repair. Such are "the law's delays." For ;25 years bar associations and public men have been trying to speed up court actions. One big cause of court delays are arguments over practice and procedure. One half the questions on which Federal Appellate Courts must rule concern procedure alone: Federal Courts are guided by a complex and undigested mass of laws passed by Congress, of judicial decisions and diverse practices in 48 different State courts. Although every President since William Howard Taft has joined...
...from the public treasury. As with many another recovery measure, the National Housing Act looked invincible on paper. To attain its objective, attacks were aimed along three lines: 1) As a stopgap until the rest of the program could be started, citizens were to be encouraged to remodel and repair their houses. This was to bring out perhaps $1,000,000,000 of private capital. The Government was to set up a Home Credit Insurance Corp. to insure banks and other accredited lenders against 20% of any loss they may have from making loans to remodelers. 2) New building...
...Orville Wright put it, "You laid out the course, so if anything happens you have only yourself to blame." The Army bought the flimsy plane, appropriated $150 for maintenance, and in 90 minutes the Wrights made "Benny" Foulois the Army's No. 1 pilot. First year's repair bills amounted to $450 of which $300 came out of Pilot Foulois' meager wages. Steadily "Benny" Foulois rose with the new service, landed in France in 1918 commanding the A. E. F. air service. Three years ago he was made Chief of Air Corps. Exulted a high-ranking brother...
...line on another. During the remainder of the Hoover regime the Fleet was kept on the West Coast on the grounds of "economy." Any paper savings from this mass formation, however, were offset by the necessity of sending ships back through the Canal to East Coast yards for repair to keep those yards in operation...
...President did not propose to build or repair anyone's house with Federal funds. What he did propose was to stimulate private enterprise to spend hundreds of millions on construction and renovation. This was to be accomplished by the Government's assuming a share of the risk of financing. A Government corporation would be set up, under his plan, to stand a portion of any losses which banks and other lenders might suffer by making loans to home owners for renovation. New construction would be promoted by a Government-sponsored system of guarantee to enlarge the market...