Word: use
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shipping Act which granted "subventions" to U. S. ships carrying U. S. mails on long-term contracts. Other factors which have increased the deficit have been recent legislation granting increased pay for night postal work, increased allowances to fourth-class postmasters, rate reductions on certain mail classes. The increasing use of the Congressional frank has added materially to the Post Office Department's deficits...
...swivel-chair, five o'clock tea generals are opposing the use of the Island as an air terminal. It is no longer needed for military purposes. Even the General Staff conceded this at a hearing before the Senate Military Affairs Committee. The War Department one time considered selling the Island and even went so far as to have its value appraised. I stopped that by introducing a bill calling for the return of the land to the State as intended in the original grant...
...Deputies squirmed in embarrassment. Quickly he made use of Chancellor Snowden's statement...
...overthrown by Dr. Mania's Peasant Party. For months the Bratianus and the remains of their "Liberal" party have chafed, muttered, plotted, as one by one the holders of Bratianu sinecures were dismissed, Bratianu pensions were cancelled, the fleet of Government automobiles, purchased for Bratianu use, was sold...
Last year, Federal Radio Commission, arbiter in all wireless controversies, thought it had solved a problem. Confronted by many a press demand for the few remaining short-wave-length radio channels not in use, the Commission allocated 20 transcontinental channels for the sole use of newspapers and press associations to transmit news. Under the American Publishers Committee, a number of public utility corporations were to be formed to handle wireless press matter. But the problem was not solved, the Commission soon discovered. Loud were the cries of newspapers and news services charging unequal allotment, curtailment of their radio press facilities...