Word: optional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...needs new planes at once, will not have superchargers installed until it sees how Pan American's work. Meanwhile the planes will fly at normal 5,000-to-14,000-ft. heights on the transcontinental run. T.W.A. plans to put six in service early in 1938, has an option on 17 more. One statistic to show size: in addition to 32 passengers, the 307 will carry a cargo weighing more than the DC-3's entire payload...
...general, the Institute's and Tsar Morgan's problems are two : how to defeat or placate temperance sentiment, how to stop bootlegging. In the grass roots States Dry sentiment has not only survived Repeal but gives signs of flourishing. In the 31 States which permit local option, Drys succeeded in promoting 3,000 referenda in 1936 and winning half of them. Last week the House of Representatives of Kansas, one of the seven States in which hard liquor is entirely prohibited, passed a bone-Dry law prohibiting beer, and the Women's Christian Temperance Union has launched...
Chapter 1. Paragraph 10, of the Navy's Uniform Regulations states that a retired officer is entitled to wear his uniform if called to active service, has the option of wearing it at other times...
...Sweringens (TIME, Dec. 14). He went on to tell a lot more: how $274,000 of their purchase price bought 47% control of Alleghany Corp.; how they promptly gave the Vans irrevocable proxy to vote this stock, how they also gave the Vans a ten-year option to buy 8,250 of the 15,000 shares of Midamerica Corp. for $8,250; how they gave the Vans a salary of $100,000 a year, how Mr. Ball bought out most of Mr. Tomlinson's stock in Midamerica so that he now owns over 90%; how finally when the Vans...
...perfected a method of evading their own law in the case of non-college players. When a major-league scout spots an able sandlot prospect, he notifies a friendly minor-league team, which hires the player with the understanding that the major-league team which discovered him has an option on his services. Last week, a remarkable case in baseball law concerning a remarkable player was ended by a remarkable decision by woolly-haired and altogether remarkable Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, baseball's tsar...