Word: sizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mindanao Island, reported last week that a number of unidentified vessels had anchored in Davao Gulf-unidentified because the nearest U. S. naval base with cutters or airplanes capable of investigating was on Manila Bay, 600 miles away. Wildly diverse reports filtered through to Manila, disagreeing as to the size and number of ships, never as to their nationality. This was because there are in Davao more than 20,000 prosperous Japanese, who control the Philippine hemp industry, own 63,800 acres under legal leases, even more illegally. At week's end, three Philippine Army planes flew from Manila...
...requirements for issues of $100,000 or less, reduced the amount of information necessary in small registrations; 2) to aid businesses which are unable to get credit under existing banking rules, Franklin Roosevelt signed the Glass Bill permitting RFC to make $1,500,000,000 in loans of any size to anybody for any length of time...
...projection of the speeches was not considered satisfactory, and the finals were held in Memorial Hall, which, because of its size, is a greater test of a speaker's ability. Frederick C. Packard '21, assistant professor of Public Speaking, advised the committee on the choice...
...Robert Ley, a 15 1/2-knot motor ship of 25,000 tons, is about the size of the two biggest ships (Manhattan and Washington) of the U. S. merchant marine. Besides a swimming pool with "voluptuous murals" and 5,000 sq. yd. of deck space, it has outside staterooms for all its 1,500 passengers. The Robert Ley is the second of no less than 20 25,000-ton ships planned for Kraft durch Fretide-no small project since there are now only about two dozen ships in the world which are as big. If built they will give Germany...
...miles away, Britain's top-notch socialites, Lord & Lady Plunket, arriving as guests in one of his newspapers' airplanes, had crashed and burned to death. Lady Plunket, 38, was the only child of Actress Fannie Ward who, at 66, still weighs 100 pounds, still wears size twelve clothes, still advocates her "cult of youth." and is known in England as a U. S.-born "perennial flapper...