Word: threeyear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When he became Finance Minister, the Daladier Government was at the height of its unpopularity with the Left, and smart Rightist Paul Reynaud had nothing to lose by promoting drastic measures for which the Premier would be chiefly blamed. He outlined a "threeyear plan" for return to "a liberal-capitalist economy" by stimulating private industry. The 40-hour week, darling of former Premier Blum's Popular Front, was abolished. The ordinary budget (exclusive of emergency arms expenditures) was balanced by increasing direct and indirect taxes ($265,000,000 and slashing expenses, 40,000 surplus State Railway workers alone being...
...Continued its broad attack upon vast American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Fortnight ago FCCommissioner Paul Walker submitted to Congress the result of his threeyear, $1,500,000 investigation of A. T. & T., recommended sweeping reforms (TIME, April n). For two months before this, A. T. & T. stock was under sharp market pressure, fell from $149 to $111. As soon as the Walker report was out, A. T. & T. bounced up $9.75 in two days. To FCC and SEC this looked suspicious; last week both launched investigations...
Died-Mrs. Harriet Chalmers Adams, explorer and lecturer, wife of Franklin Pierce Adams, onetime counselor of the Pan-American Union; in Nice, France. Mrs. Adams headed expeditions in Haiti, Africa, Siberia and Sumatra, made a threeyear, 40,000-mi. journey through South America starting in 1903. In 1916, she was the first woman War correspondent to visit the front-line trenches. In 1925, she organized the International Society of Woman Geographers...
Gene Vidal as Director of Aeronautics flew to Warm Springs last fortnight to show President Roosevelt his "threeyear plan" for aviation. For variety it was an administrative Decathlon. Back at his Washington desk last week as Lindbergh crossed the South Atlantic and started homeward, Director Vidal was stirring the aviation industry as it had not been stirred since Lindbergh first flew into the east...