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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME, Oct. 23, p. 14, ". . . [John Nance Garner's] Neon-blue eyes. . . ." If you will check the spectrum of Neon you will find it emits mostly orange and red wavelengths of light. Mercury or argon are the usual sources of blue light used in signs etc...
...Also Rans. Illinois, etc."-and say just what was that score? Looks like the "Little Five" took the "Big Five" or something...
...76th Congress will face a probable new Army appropriation of about $1,700,000,000, a new Navy appropriation of about $1,300,000,000, plus a $275,000,000 deficiency appropriation. To meet this bill for national defense, while continuing to spend many millions on relief, works, etc., the U. S. Treasury must raise new taxes, somehow, somewhere. And 1940 is an election year. To raise new taxes, Congress must do two politically unpalatable things: 1) broaden the income-tax structure, by lowering the tax-exemption rate to include thousands of U. S. citizens who now pay no income...
...Hutcheson of Indianapolis, president of the carpenters' union (300,000 members). Root of the indictment: a 25-year-old jurisdictional dispute between carpenters' and machinists' unions over equipment installations at the Anheuser-Busch brewery, forcing abandonment of plans to build additional aging and fermenting plants, etc., to cost from $750,000 to $2,000,000. The dispute, said an Arnold assistant, Roscoe Steffen, "could be settled in an hour if the leadership of the union [carpenters] had the interests of the public and the welfare of labor at heart...
Last week, along with a months-high accumulation of mailbags, assorted comforts, phonograph records, clothing, etc. tagged for Pitcairn, the essential works of VR6AY, sent back last spring for repairs, lay in Panama, still waiting for a British merchantman which war orders sent elsewhere. Chances were, according to Pitcairn's best-informed friends and radio acquaintances, that the islanders were as much in the dark about this war as they were about the last. Worse yet, they were probably in extreme need of foodstuffs, medicine, other necessities, which in recent years they have got largely from tourist ships...