Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were imperative. Said Farmer O'Neal: "The condition of farm crop prices is one reason for the stockmarket being so jittery." Both the talk of corn and the talk of jitters were advance publicity for the belated refitting of the New Deal's battered agricultural ship. For when Congress convenes in special session next month a new, permanent farm program will be the first legislation considered...
...features of the soil conservation program, 3) some form of AAA's prime prop-crop control. However, supporting processing taxes would be enacted as a general tax measure, not incorporated in the program as before. With that legal weakness removed, the New Deal might risk sailing its rebuilt ship before the Supreme Court once again...
Born in 1798, Delacroix had an adventurous infancy. He was dropped from a ship's side by one careless nurse, nearly burnt up by another, and when he reached the age of reason came close to hanging himself in imitation of an engraving. From his German mother Delacroix may have inherited the responsiveness to Flemish art which showed itself in a life-long admiration for Rubens. His first masterpiece, Dante and Vergil, which was exhibited when he was 24, was described by his master as "Rubens chastened." Beginning his journal in that year, Delacroix scribbled down a daily medley...
...airliner passed Rock Springs on time at 8:16 p.m., flying normally at 180 m.p.h. Two days later it was found 17 miles off its course-to the left-wrecked on a snowcovered side of a mountain (see cut), both engines and 18 occupants flung far ahead of the ship, Only one passenger tangled in the smashed plane. Time of the crash was fixed at 8:51 p.m. which with the liner's position when found, indicated that the pilot had proceeded in a direct line at full speed to the point where he crashed, that he apparently...
Over Alabama, Major Lewis A. Dayton, piloting an army plane, waved his hand. Behind him Private Frank Strozier saw the wave. The major flew on, landed at Valparaiso, Fla. aghast to find no Private Strozier in his ship. Then the phone rang. Over the wire came Private Strozier's voice, "You wiggled your hand. I thought the plane was on the blink. I bailed out." Said the major, "I was cold. I wanted you to close the cockpit, not empty...