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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Growers of dark and burley tobacco, 240,000 strong, last week voted on AAA's proposal to impose compulsory marketing quotas on their crops for 1939. Result: 61.2% Yes for burley, 60.5% Yes for dark, both short of the two-thirds approval necessary for the quota. Since flue-cured tobacco growers and rice farmers turned down quotas last fortnight and cotton is the only major crop that has yet accepted one, for the next crop year AAA's score is one "victory," four "defeats." Result: an increase in the already flourishing crop of pre-Congress AAAttacks, AAAlibis (TIME...
...Also short on cash are: 1) Italy, where the 1939-40 budget last week revealed that during the next fiscal year Italy will suffer an unexpected 4,755,000,000 lire ($237,750,000) deficit, largely due to arms expansion; 2) France, where the Chamber of Deputies last week worked on the greatest arms budget since the World War which, in its ordinary and extraordinary appropriations, upped last year's budget...
Having tired of one short jail sentence after another, Painter Grammens recently announced an armistice of sorts: no more daubing on official buildings, but plenty of attention to such private undertakings as shops, hotels, garage owners, doctors. Meanwhile, the Belgium Royal Commission on Names and Dialects made haste to appease M. Grammens and all Flemish nationalists. Announced last week was a change of name for hundreds of Belgian towns and villages. Samples: Leuven for Louvain, Ieper for Ypres, Brugge for Bruges, Kortrijk for Courtrai...
...successor. Last week, when the hearings recessed, the button returned to Manhattan. Last man to wear it on the stand was NBC's Vice President William S. Hedges. When it appeared in his lapel, FCCuriosity boiled over. Commissioner Paul Atlee Walker asked if it was a short-wave transmitter...
...greatly expanded its special aids to airlines, has put 33 of its men in airport weather offices. It has also extended and improved its warning services for hurricanes, fruit frosts, forest fires, floods. And new Chief Reichelderfer will find his current budget the fattest in years: a trifle short...