Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wanted to charge the bulk of TVA's expenses up to navigation and flood control instead of to power development, thus reducing TVA's yardstick for private power rates to pure "subterfuge." Until last week neither utility men nor the public knew just what equations TVA did use in working out its rates. Last week, as the joint House-Senate investigating committee and its counsel, Francis Biddle, squared away to look into this and many another TVA question, the President sent to Congress a long-awaited report from TVA's financial committee on cost allocation. At last...
...Rose had been digging into the connections between the Shaw administration and the city's biggest gamblers. Some of these, according to witnesses Lawyer Rose put on the stand, had given Harry Munson-henchman and onetime campaign manager of Mayor Frank L. Shaw-"fistfuls of $100 bills" for use in the mayor's electioneering. The homicide squad found that Raymond had been trailed for three months by Earle E. Kynette, acting captain of the police department's intelligence squad...
...District Attorney Buron Rogers Fitts-whom the Clinton reformers had long been attacking as fiercely as they had the mayor-unexpectedly jumped into action. He secured grand jury indictments charging beefy Captain Kynette and two aides with conspiracy to commit murder, assault with intent to commit murder, and malicious use of explosives, the first of which carries a possible death penalty. For nine weeks the Kynette trial has been Southern California's biggest political circus. District Attorney Fitts, eagerly re-establishing himself as a legal White Knight, extracted testimony that the Kynette squad of 17 "supersnoopers" got its orders...
Copyright law protects BBC television programs from being exhibited to paying audiences. So, to have something to show his incipient spectators, Mr. Sagall will have to use his revolutionary new projection process as a lever either to force BBC to supply programs or to induce Parliament to license an independent program service...
...born in an American community, the graduate is as much responsible to it as his thought and action affect it. Upon his job he imposes the ideas he has formulated in college, and if he has an altruistic interest in his country's future, he will try to use his education so that it benefits the place in which he works. For many graduates the process of translating education into practical terms, which makes it useful to society, can be most wisely done in their home community. It is ideal that when ready to enter the business world, the graduate...