Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...behalf of railroad passenger traffic. The trainmen for years, it was argued, have tried "to limit development of highway passenger transportation." It seemed quite obvious to Greyhound-at least for propaganda purposes-that since railroading trainmen far outnumbered the bus-driving trainmen, the Brotherhood called the strike "with a view to restore patronage ... to the railroads and increase the number of railroad trainmen employed by the railroads...
...both Houses while the President was embarking on a fishing trip, the second message to the extra session took the form of a grand-scale ground-plan to revive U. S. industry by a nationwide housing drive backed by private capital. Said the President: "From the point of view of widespread and sustained economic recovery, housing constitutes the largest and most promising single field for private enterprise. Housing construction has not kept pace with either the needs or growth of our population. From 1930 to 1937, inclusive, the average annual number of new dwelling units constructed in the United States...
...Russia's principal railway from every point of view, especially the strategic, is the Trans-Siberian. Last week Dictator Joseph Stalin and Premier Vyacheslav Molotov were announced recently to have issued a joint order demanding that officials of the Trans-Siberian "restore it to efficient operation." Stalin & Molotov mentioned that "76 railway cars loaded with metal have been standing on sidings at Khabarovsk for six months." Their order added: "Eliminate traffic jams and defective locomotives...
...grandeur of ancient Rome's denuded masonry and shattered marble. How differently from such artists one contemporary U. S. painter sees, feels and works, could be observed last week in the most interesting treatment of Rome's Ruins yet produced in the 20th Century. It was on view at the Julien Levy Gallery in Manhattan as a one-man, one-painting exhibition, and most critics, whether they liked it or not, agreed that there was enough in the one painting for several ordinary shows...
...York Times business index slid on down, having slumped more in the past three months than in the 13 months following the 1929 market smash With such figures in the headlines, mostly a week to two weeks behind hand and only a further decline in view, there was ample reason for renewed fall of stocks, and week Dow-Jones industrial averages set a new low of 113.6, then bounced back ten points in the customary rally...