Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...because there is ice in Juneau Harbor some months of the year Pan American will use land planes instead of their big Clippers" [TIME, Aug. 15]. Juneau and all other Alaskan seaports are free of ice and open to navigation the year round, except Nome, on Bering Sea, which is open about five months. Juneau, like Chicago, gets its ice from electric refrigeration...
...indeed ice-free, but not the shore. Icy shorelines make it difficult to land planes for maintenance. Such conditions decided Pan American to shift its New York terminus on the Bermuda run from Port Washington, L. I. to ice-free Baltimore. For the same reason, Pan American will use land planes at Juneau...
...eating was over, the orthodox Republican audience received orthodox Republican pabulum. Chief speakers were New York's Representative (former Senator) James W. Wadsworth and National Chairman John D. M. Hamilton. Excerpts: Mr. Wadsworth-"Wherever we turn, we are confronted with Federal money, billions of it. It is used brazenly in tempting the States and their subordinate municipalities into acquiescence. To put it boldly, much of this tempting should be called bribery-the bribery of an unsuspecting people into acquiescence." Mr. Hamilton-"In less than four years Congress has appropriated for WPA use alone the gigantic...
...been spent to relieve genuine distress, how has it been spent? . . . What has Mr. Roosevelt, who likes to talk so much about morality in ' government and politics, to say to this picture of jobless, hungry people eating out of garbage cans while his henchmen, in his name, use relief funds to buy their wav back into office...
Soon afterward the Committee, having finished its work in Washington, announced that it would use up what remains of its $25,000 appropriation traveling, and one stop, announced Chairman Dies, would be Hollywood...