Word: snarls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worst knots in the perplexing U. S. airmail snarl can best be explained by this syllogistic sequence: 1) the airlines cannot get along without airmail subsidy; 2) airmail contracts are let competitively to the lowest bidder; 3) therefore airlines often have to bid so low to get the contracts that the airmail subsidy literally costs them money. A perfect case in point took place in July when the Post Office Department opened the bids for four new airmail routes. The minor run from Cheyenne to Huron, S. Dak. went to Wyoming Air Service, for the realistic...
...imaginable cur-mixtures. In summer he would come into Pawhuska-Osage capital- choose a sunny spot at a principal intersection and curl up on the sidewalk to sleep, a heavy blanket keeping off flies and scorching sunrays. His dogs would curl up about him to doze or to snarl and snap at passersby. Once, the city dog-catcher captured his pets and shot them. John disappeared for a few weeks, then returned to town with more dogs than ever...
This rough & ready background stood Harold Fowler in good stead in 1933 when he mixed into reform politics in New York City, helped elect Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. As reward he was given the job of First Deputy Police Commissioner in charge of straightening out New York's traffic snarl, reducing accidents. With characteristic aggressiveness, Deputy Commissioner Fowler took to cruising over the city in blimps and autogiros to spot traffic jams, started safety enforcement contests between precincts, instituted numerous strict regulations for motor vehicles. Last week the worth of his work was recognized by the National Safety Council which...
...good the boys or the gods would continue to be to U. S. railroading, stocky, optimistic John Pelley cannot say. Ahead of him is not only the pension snarl and the demand for wage increases, but also a battle for a revision of freight rates to give his carriers more revenue. But John Pelley is no worrier. Said he in the worst of hard times: "Get me right. I'm not going to talk bullish. Nothing like that. I can't see myself sitting on a pink cloud right now. But people are overdoing this pessimism." Today, with...
...income tax evasion evidence which sent Al Capone to prison, traced and identified in court the Lindbergh ransom money. His assistant will be Joseph Edward Murphy, who was Chief Moran's aide until last summer when he got himself, his department and Secretary Morgenthau into an intra-Cabinet snarl by setting Secret Servants on the trail of G-Men suspected of murdering criminals without giving them a chance to surrender (TIME...