Word: sat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government, WPA would come in full-fledged and ramified to a degree rivaling even what Herbert Hoover made of Commerce, what lazy thinking made of Interior, for years the great catch-all department. Head of it would be a lanky, cadaverous Cabinet officer of 48, unlike any who ever sat at the big table in the White House...
...steaming bamboo hut near Manila, a lean, bronzed young U. S. chemist sat with a small native child on his knees. The child lay rigid, its face, arms and legs swollen, the rest of its body wasted. The child whimpered at the burning pain in his heart and intestines. He was dying of beriberi, ancient Oriental disease. The chemist thrust a few drops of an extract from rice hulls between the child's lips. Almost instantly the boy revived, and young Chemist Robert Runnels Williams, India-born son of U. S. missionaries, knew that he had saved a life...
First Ship Through Bonneville Dam (Sat. 1 p.m. CBS) passes through locks to open The Dalles, Ore. to ocean commerce...
...Badge of Courage (Sat. 7:30 p.m. CBS). Columbia Workshop makes microphone drama of Stephen Crane's Civil War story...
Nairobi Drumbeats (Sat. 10 p.m., NBC-Red) short-waved from Kenya Colony, Africa, begin a broadcast of jazz history...