Word: return
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such piecemeal laboratory tests however do not completely satisfy the conscientious manufacturer. He gives away footwear to people who are hardest on them-basketball players, garage and creamery workers, fishermen and miners, who will return the goods for examination when well worn. "At times," explained Tester Glancy, "men and young women are hired to walk daily, testing out new types of goods. Such walkers travel over a prescribed course and register at widely separated points to prove that they actually walked. Lastly, there is a group of boys and girls which often numbers 75 who wear test shoes. Once each...
...seamen, register only under the U. S. flag for 20 years, pay its executives no more than $25,000 a year. These conditions satisfied, the Authority will submit for bids the company's plans for new ships to U. S. shipyards, which in turn must agree to return to the Government profit in excess of 10%, for the job. The Authority will accept the lowest bid, but will contract to sell the finished product to the operator at a figure equal to the cost of building the ship in a foreign yard. This figure is almost certain...
...cancellation by President Roosevelt and Postmaster General Farley in 1934 of every U. S. airmail contract because of alleged collusion. For two months the Army flew the mails, at a cost of 13 lives (TIME, Feb. 19, 1934 et seq.). When this fiasco forced the Government to back down, return the airmail to the commercial lines after ousting nearly 20 top men in the industry, all the airlines involved brought suits totaling some $15,000,000 against the Post Office Department. Last week the Government settled the $9,000,000 suits of American, Northwest, Transcontinental & Western and Western Air Express...
...enough of the ruthlessness of early settlers to believe in "the inherent nobility of the Red Man." She casually tells a story of a young gunman who killed an unoffending Indian while his whole party was in the hands of the savages. The Indians demanded only his life in return, flayed him alive, while in a similar situation whites would have exterminated all the Indians in the area. Sallie Reynolds traveled to Colorado and back to Texas, married Bud Matthews, bore him eight children. Her book is filled with good plain Texas names such as Flake Barber and Si Hough...
...Recent ineffectiveness of the League has caused European statesmen to consider revamping the Covenant to (1 deny membership to dominions and protectorates, 2 return the South American mandates to Germany, 3 disband the League's international army, 4 revoke the League's power to use force in applying sanctions, 5 cancel the membership...