Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issue of TIME, Dec. 7, on p. 36, under the main head Transport, subhead "Ambitious Albany," appears an article with which we in Albany are very pleased, with the exception of the statement appearing on p. 38-that Albany civic groups favor the proposed Albany-St. Lawrence project...
Warden King, a onetime insurance salesman who works part time for the Biological Survey at $3.50 per day, proceeded to expound the law. Caught flagrante delicto, flustered Mr. Justice Van Devanter cried: "Indeed, I'm sorry. I assure you that I'm heartily in favor of anything that will help conserve ducks, and I'll stop at the post office on my way back and buy the stamp...
...mentioned were Mr. & Mrs. Henry Ford, once asked by Viscountess Astor to tea at her country place on an afternoon when King George & Queen Mary also came for tea (TIME, April 23, 1928). Mr. Ford was, however, twice "commanded" to audience with Edward of Wales, as a special favor before Edward came to the throne...
...since the railroad operated flasher warnings at the crossing. The driver retorted that he stopped at the warning, but neither saw nor heard the train until he was almost across the tracks, when it hit him. Railroads have won similar judgments before, and the Common Pleas Court decided in favor of the N. Y. Central, ordered Harvey Sentle to pay for damages to the Century. Truckman Sentle appealed. Last week, the Ohio Supreme Court refused to review the case...
...company asked the Federal Communications Commission for permission to install an experimental pipeline between Manhattan and Philadelphia. The company explained that its primary interest in the cable was for telephone communication, that it had no television projects afoot, but would lease the cable to all reputable television experimenters without favor. The Commission thereupon withdrew its objections and installation of the Manhattan-Philadelphia line was started (TIME, Oct. 14, et seq.). Last week, with installation complete, A. T. & T. summoned newshawks to its downtown Manhattan offices for the cable's first public demonstration. The cable can transmit 240 telephone messages...