Word: surveyals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ablest pen in 1936 has been that of Des Moines Register's, Jay Norwood ("Ding") Darling. This year "Ding," who carried away from Washington a first-rate grudge when he quit the U. S. Bureau of Biological Survey because the New Deal failed to spend enough on conserving his beloved wild life, has pounded tirelessly at the New Deal spending on other projects. He has shown Harry Hopkins making the electorate sit up and bark for WPA grants, Franklin Roosevelt as a Roman emperor tossing a puny taxpayer to a gladiator labeled Eleven Billion Dollar Deficit...
Last week the U. S. Biological Survey proved its impartial vigilance when Motorman Walter P. Chrysler, good New Dealer, was summoned to appear in Baltimore's Federal district court, answer charges of misbehavior on his Eastern Shore estate last duck-hunting season. The triple-barreled charge: 1) failure to plug his repeating shotgun to three-shell capacity; 2) failure to have a Federal stamp on his hunting license; 3) shooting over a baited area. Maximum penalty on each count: $500 fine, six months' imprisonment...
Last July Surgeon General Parran wrote a lengthy article called "Stamp Out Syphilis" which appeared simultaneously in The Reader's Digest and Survey Graphic. Last week the editors of The Reader's Digest bragged: "Discussion [of this article] in conversation everywhere and in the Press of the nation has brought the whole subject into the open for the first time. To date more than 1,500 organizations and individuals have ordered 276,021 reprints of the article for distribution...
Stockholders willing, a corporate fission will occur this autumn in a notable aviation name. Fairchild Aviation Corp. announced plans last week to divorce its engine and aircraft units from its aerial camera and survey business. The latter will be carried on by the present company. Shares in a new concern to be known as Fairchild Engine & Airplane Corp. will be distributed share-for-share to stockholders in Fairchild Aviation...
Plans for an investigation of the working conditions of labor in Cambridge were laid last night by the Labor Relations Committee of the Student Union. Results of the survey will be published next spring in a pamphlet...