Word: tidal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fifty thousand soft coal miners were on strike in Pennsylvania, the Federal Government's whole recovery program was on the verge of being engulfed in a tidal wave of labor disputes, one evening last week as National Recovery Administrator Johnson climbed into a trimotored Army plane in Washington and flew off for a midnight meeting with President Roosevelt at Hyde Park. When General Johnson woke up next morning in Poughkeepsie's Nelson Hotel the coal strike had been called off for the time being. The recovery program was again moving forward on an even keel. By his night...
Professor Mather will probably cover the various theories of the formation of the earth, whether from nebular matter in space; or perhaps by a breaking off from the sun owing to a tidal wave created by a passing comet, the Jeans theory. He will present the various conjectures and discoveries about the formation of the earth's shell of rock...
...program for farm, mortgages, $2,000,000,000 for home mortgages. Half a billion dollars was voted for direct unemployment relief. The Civilian Conservation Corps was created to put 275,000 idle young men to work in the woods. All these measures were desperate defenses, bulwarks against the immediate tidal wave of economic demoralization...
...Convention was held at Amherst last year, with D. L. Moore '33 as the Harvard delegate. Moore read two poems by Anna Hempstead. Marget Clark, last year's delegate from Radcliffe, read three selections by R. S. Hillyer '17, associate professor of English: "In the Tidal Marsh," "Ironwood," and "The Platitude...
...manufacture the new money the Bureau of Engraving & Printing went into 24-hour operation, its blue lights gleaming through the night across the Tidal Basin. Its 4,500 employes turned out crisp new bales of cash. Trucks, airplanes and trains rushed it cross-countrv to the twelve Federal Reserve banks from which it was distributed like a financial blood transfusion to member banks...