Word: zoning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Barkley." Nominee Thatcher was born 62 years ago in Chicago-a fact he omits from his Congressional biography which emphasizes his "early life on farm" in western Kentucky. While the Panama Canal was being built he served three years (1910-13) as Civil Administrator of the Canal Zone. He wrote long homemade odes for every public occasion. Sample: Drift, clouds, drift, far o'er the Western sea; Rift, clouds, rift, in loveliness to me. Blow, winds, blow! Flow, tides, flow! Gild all with glory, Sun, we ask of thee! Canal workers submitted a protest to President Taft which read...
...Great Depression. A Manhattan peanut peddler shot himself because he was ill. Because his daughter eloped, a Maryland farmer did away with himself. Unexplained suicides (in addition to dozens for traditional reasons) included a wealthy paper manufacturer, a retired Marine Corps major, an Army sergeant in the Canal Zone, a dress manufacturer, the social secretary of the wife of Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams...
...from New York and way stations to Fabyan, N. H., and from Boston to Provincetown. The New England Steamship Co. advertised a personally escorted total eclipse Cape Cod tour from Manhattan for $25. Hotels outside the 100-mi, belt of totality organized motorbus services to take guests into the zone...
Most important to U. S. business was the effective Federal blockade of the great coffee port of Santos. In the past month only one ship has entered Santos harbor, the Munson Liner Western World which was given clearance papers fortnight ago to carry U. S. citizens from the war zone. New York shipping brokers estimated that the blockade of Santos is costing U. S. shipping companies $15,000 a round trip each. Brazilian warships guarding the harbor received a curious visitation last week. A squadron of rebel bombing planes zoomed overhead in formation, then as sailors rushed to battle stations...
...Asphalt Shingle & Roofing Institute, the Sugar Institute (TIME, Feb. 22). Charges brought are generally "combination and conspiracy" to restrain trade or efforts to fix prices.* Even the steel industry has drawn Governmental fire, for allegedly pegging the price of rails at $43 a ton since 1923. Through the twilight zone between legal co-operation and anti-trust law violation, President Lament will have to thread his way. Knowing that he will be supported by President Hoover in his efforts to resuscitate a prime industry, few steelmen doubted his surefootedness...