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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...point of Hore-Belisha's new appointment was obvious-his iob was to get much-needed recruits for the British Army. the ugly duckling of Britain's fighting services. With the sort of interest shown in a popular cricketer, Britishers-from black-coated civil servants in Whitehall to roisterous cockneys on Hampstead Heath -waited last week for War Secretary Hore-Belisha to reveal his program...
Immediately there rose a hubbub of a far different sort than follows most crashes. Said Daytona Beach Airport Manager Peter Dygert: "I am sure the pilot did not know the power line was there. ... I was not informed last night of the new line being strung. This morning I was informed that the line was placed there to give service to a small area to the west which had been interrupted when an underground cable failed...
...another $1,463,000 which Congress, directly or indirectly, has already given the Public Health Service to start moving the National Institute of Health to Bethesda, Md. As soon as buildings are ready Dr. Thompson will move his staff of 650. He no longer does research himself. "I sort of keep an eye on my boys, and help to get the money which enables them to keep going." But he still gets into his old "lab" clothes weekends-to tend the zinnias, phlox and anemones around his home at Chevy Chase. Ground has already been broken for the new buildings...
...only three deaths are charged against it. That accident occurred last year when a Clipper sideswiped a launch while taking off from Trinidad's Port-of-Spain harbor, filled with water (TIME, April 20, 1936). Even that mishap was more like a collision between surface craft than the sort of accident that commonly befalls airplanes. The record of P.A.G., which flies the difficult South American overland routes, is less excellent but still good: 32 lives have been lost in nine years of operation covering 40,000,000 passenger miles...
...support having been weakened by the fact that one Democratic Senator was unavoidably detained in jail. Defection of other Democrats led to heavy fisticuffing on the floor, after which the Senate abruptly adjourned, leaving the House still sitting. Over the weekend one lone Senator carried on as a sort of one-man rump, while seven House members met in what no one was quite sure was rump or regular session. Meantime Governor Murphy got away from it all, cruising on the Potomac with Franklin D. Roosevelt, announcing before boarding a plane for Washington: "I haven't felt better...