Word: resorting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last resort in a desperate situation," Wendell Willkie, president of vast Commonwealth & Southern Corp. and sometime spokesman for the utility industry, five months ago proposed to Franklin Roosevelt that the Government buy up his utilities in TVA territory. What makes the utility situation seem desperate to such men as Wendell Willkie are two New Deal policies: 1) direct competition with the utilities through such projects as TVA and Bonneville Dam; 2) abolition of all except geographically integrated utility pyramids, which is a main feature of the Utility Holding Company Act of 1935. Result has been the bitterest...
...FINE SUMMER WEATHER - Catherine Whitcomb - Random House ($2). Warm, summery novel covering a warm summer day in a New Hampshire resort, by the author of The Grown-Ups. Although her grown-ups are a little too neat to be plausible. Author Whitcomb's children are shrewd, engaging, unsentimental...
...Pepper's U. S. Senate seat. For the past six weeks, Messrs. David Sholtz, Mark Wilcox and Claude Pepper, as well as two other minor candidates whose names not even many Florida voters knew, had been touring Florida's sticky villages and sun-blistered swamp towns, its resort cities and its inland flatwoods, to an accompaniment of loudspeakers, floodlights, bad cigars and baby-kissing such as to challenge the memory of the State's oldest inhabitant. The windup found the candidates characteristically occupied...
...horrors of the cramming procedure which ensues when the day of reckoning looms. The routine of frantic review, late hours, neglect of exercise, tension, gloom, and the search for stimulants is a familiar if unwelcome specter. And the search for stimulants has not been fruitless. Last spring the resort to benzedrine was momentarily popular until "debunked" as habit-forming. This spring the answer seems to be caffein pills, which, it is claimed, are some ambrosian and utopian pick-me-ups which do every thing they should do, and nothing they should...
...Memory of Love Author Breuer wrote brashly but not brilliantly about a love affair from the male viewpoint. This time, no less candidly but with more social intent, she describes the painful affair (shared by her cynical mother) of an inhibited, literary virgin at a Florida winter resort...