Word: return
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grounds of New York City's 1939 World's Fair. There, laying the cornerstone of the Fair's Federal Building, he said with a twinkle in his eye: "The master mason certifies that the cornerstone is well and truly laid and in return I have assured him that I hold a union card.''* There, accompanied by his dumpty little Fusion Republican friend, Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, he also had the experience of being introduced to 20,000 delegates of the National Education Association (see p. 28) by a lady no less well known than himself...
...made liquid by a new set of exchequer chancellors (TIME, March 14, et ante). Last week, for reasons best known to his tax experts, William Randolph Hearst wrote a letter to Assessor W. M. Hollister of San Luis Obispo County, Calif. announcing that as of January 1 he had returned his legal residence to his San Simeon estate. Though he issued no detailed explanation of his return to native soil, the inference was that California would now be less expensive for him and his heirs than New York. For Assessor Hollister he listed $1,366,300.25 in "solvent credits," bringing...
...work. Last week U. S. Housing Administrator Nathan Straus, who hopes to assist State and local agencies in building thousands of low-rent homes, announced that U. S. H. A. has arranged with A. F. of L.'s construction unions to settle all such arguments in advance. In return for a guarantee that wages prevailing when a project is started shall be paid until the job is done, the unions agreed to postpone any jurisdictional strikes until the Housing Authority and A. F. of L.'s Building Trades Department have had ample time to mediate...
Germany, on her part, announced the Chancellor, agreed to take responsibility for Austria's Government debts owed to Britain. In return, Britain slashed the interest payments on the Austrian loans, also reduced the interest charges on Germany's 1924 Dawes loan and 1930 Young loan, both floated to help the Reich's reparations efforts. Further, Britain arranged to take an increased amount of German goods, allowing Germany to make future debt payments from the proceeds of these additional exports...
Last week, K.C.L. A-2 was uneventfully running 400 bbl. of crude a day. It has been throttled down to that figure because of California's proration agreements. In a 24-hour free test run, it yielded 3,600 bbl. Even under prorated production, it is expected to return its investment-$305,000-in three years...