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...Hopeful as were these predictions of better times by U. S. tycoonery they did not help President Hoover solve the immediate problem of Unemployment. The President's estimates showed 3,500,000 persons out of work. Of these it was figured that a million were in transit from one job to another or voluntarily idle and that another 500,000 were in communities of less than 3,000 population where they would be cared for by friends or relatives. The remaining 2,000,000 jobless represented about 800,000 families. The President's view was that this...
Died. Frank Richards Ford, 59, Manhattan engineer, member of the famed engineering firm Ford, Bacon & Davis, a director of L. C. Smith and Corona Typewriters, Inc., consulting engineer and director of six other companies, planner of the Philadelphia rapid transit system and the unification of electric street railways in Chicago; after an operation, at the Medical
...This includes stocks of blister copper, refined copper and copper in transit...
Taking his cue from the White House, Assistant Secretary Lowman reopened his pulpwood embargo which had already held up six vessels in U. S. ports, had blocked 68 others in transit. Big U.S. Business, the Soviet's good friend, hustled to Washington. Representatives of Amtorg, International Paper and the foreign shipping companies fairly swept Mr. Lowman off his feet with categorical denials that any of Russia's 1929 pulpwood had been produced by convict labor. Soviet officials in charge of the Russian Export Trust cabled that the pulpwood workers were free "to leave any time at their own will," that...
European air transport lines cross national frontiers almost as frequently as U. S. planes traverse State boundaries. But there is no uniformity of rules or ground facilities, except between countries which have entered into special treaties. Although highly adaptable to international transit, aviation is proceeding along markedly nationalistic lines. For this reason the League of Nations transit organization at Geneva has asked eminent airmen for helpful suggestions. The message of Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, published last week: "A uniform [world] system of markings and signals should be decided upon, and a comprehensive meteorological and radio reporting system established. Aviation must...