Word: spending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attitude was right or wrong, whether its powers should be limited, whether it could be fooled. The Plan. The great farm bill of 1936 went into the Senate merely as an amendment to the Soil Conservation Act of 1935, which originally gave the Secretary of Agriculture permission to spend his spare time and any odd change available in preventing soil erosion (TIME, Jan. 27). The "amendment" gave him power for two years to pay farmers not only for preventing erosion but for conserving "fertility" by growing soil-conserving crops (e. g., clover) instead of various cash crops (e. g., cotton...
...more proportionally for food than in pre-War days, to prohibit the grazing of cattle on land taken out of crop production, were all voted down with ease. One important amendment to the bill was adopted: flood control was added to the things on which Secretary Wallace could spend money, thus opening up to him vast opportunities to alter the natural drainage system of the U. S. The Court. Best oratorical efforts of the debate were devoted to the Supreme Court. In what amounted to the first serious Senate sound-off on the AAA decision, Nebraska's old, white...
...collusive divorce, necessitating the employment of a professional corespondent, an honest girl from Tenth Avenue (Miss Conklin). The drama then resolves itself into the following questions: Will Miss Conklin put on the pink pajamas? If so, will she get into bed with Actor James Rennie? If so, will she spend the night? If so, will he do right by her next morning? Co-Respondent Unknown gives each of these inquiries the properly titivating answer. If Co-Respondent Unknown survives 100 nights, its run will be another tribute to the capable emotional stripteasing by which Actress Conklin kept The Pursuit...
Senate Investigator Charles Heave Dolan: The Air Bureau economized to a hazardous extent, "violated regulations 100% in some districts," was lax in reporting forced landings, blamed more than 80% of crashes on weather or plane personnel. U. S. airlines, though deeply in the red as a whole, still spend great sums on new safety equipment, are chiefly responsible for making U. S. air transport five times safer now than...
...They don't have to spend a lot of time and work in building up a public. Of course not all good athletes have the ability to act. Some of them seem muscle bound or something. Max Baer is a good example of a talented athlete who made good in pictures, but he got much too swell headed...