Word: specializing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cabin supercharging, unquestionably one of the greatest advances in store for air transportation, requires special design and construction. It is now under development, and will be first introduced by the Boeing 307 stratoliners that are currently in production for airline service. No other supercharged, sealed cabin commercial transport has been built in America...
...fortnight. Chief Justice Hughes, addressing the American Law Institute in Washington, declared: "The multiplication of administrative agencies is the outstanding characteristic of our time. The controversies within the range of administrative action may be different and extremely important, and they may call for a particular type of experience and special methods of inquiry, but the spirit which should animate that action . . . must be the spirit of the just judge...
...work relief rolls have jumped from 20,000 to 70,000, Chicago's from 50,000 to 120,000, in the last five months. Direct relief rolls have also bulged, but here the difficulty was aggravated because Ohio's State Legislature, due to assemble in special session next week, squabbled last winter over relief funds, adjourned without solving the problem. Chicago's Relief Administration, which gets its funds from a city real-estate tax and the State Relief Commission, had spent its entire 1938 allowance from the city $5,404,000, by May 1 and no more...
...that France close her borders to Leftist supplies* and thus probably permit a Franco victory; 2) that France discard her military alliance with the Soviet Union. Possibly for bargaining purposes, he was also said to have asked that Italians in the French African protectorate of Tunisia be given special privileges and that France pledge not to conscript native troops for her armies. Further conversations between Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano and the French Charge d'Affaires in Rome, Jules Blondel, were temporarily out of the question...
...that point President Cárdenas increased the number of Federal troops in Potosí to 10,000, sent a squadron of observation planes ahead and himself boarded the million-dollar Presidential special "Olive Train" to investigate matters at first hand in the city of San Luis Potosí. There he publicly accused the Bull of Potosí of playing ball with the foreign oil companies, and announced the Government was ordering him to disband his private army...