Word: unite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baltimore went President Hoover to review the annual parade of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. He took his place on the canopied stand at City Hall beside Maryland's Wet Democratic Governor, Albert Cabell Ritchie. For three hours marchers streamed by. After the strictly military units had passed, a startling demonstration developed. Veterans came along flourishing beer steins. One New York unit lustily sang the Brown Derby's "Sidewalks of New York" while gesturing derisively at President Hoover. The President saw trundled by a little cart bearing a keg, jugs, empty gin bottles festooned...
Governor Theodore Roosevelt of Porto Rico hastened to despatch the U. S. S. Grebe with a medical unit. For disease spread fast. One surgeon performed 50 amputations in a few hours. The U. S. Navy loaned the Red Cross three tri-motor Ford planes each to carry 1,500 pounds of medical supplies. Food and water was rushed from every direction, especially from inland valleys of the island which had escaped the storm. A sunken dredge and rushing torrents blocked Santo Domingo harbor; supplies were ferried ashore in ships' boats...
Trans-Ohio. A small unit in a field where big units prosper most, Transcontinental Oil Co. has had a varied career. Less familiar is it to stock-traders for its record of deficits in five of the last ten years than for its stock's puzzling ups & downs. Many a broker has warned: "The way of the Trans-guesser is hard." But lately Transcontinental had done better, its first-quarter earnings showing a 100% gain over last year's. Credit for this is due to Amos L. Beaty who resigned as chairman of Texas Corp. last year...
...serious dispute is the manner whereby representation is now to be apportioned. Unless the law is changed, the 73rd Congress will be divided up on the basis of major fractions-dealing out House seats in round numbers, counting as a unit any remainder more than half, chopping all remainders of less than half. By this process the average Congressional District after 1932 will have a population of 280,762 as compared with the present quota...
...copper mining (TIME, April 28). They set a staff of engineers and scientists to work. They applied their process in 1926, had it running at full speed in the Oficina Maria Elena plant by 1928, saw Maria Elena production rise until today it is by far the biggest producing unit in the industry...