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February 11, 1936
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Headlines from February 11, 1936
Mrs. Roosevelt Gives Leisure Class Definition
Gives definition of leisure class
PEACETIME RECORD SET IN ARMY BILL; Total of $572,655,316, Before House, Exceeds Current Year Outlay by $49,636,423. $374,981,521 FOR MILITARY $7,234,024 Coast Defense Rise Is Biggest -- Funds Allowed for Only 565 New Planes. PEACETIME RECORD SET IN ARMY BILL
House bill provides for 565 new combat planes
Cruisers of Sea Powers
The table that follows shows the cruisers of the five principal sea powers itemized by the classifications set up at the London Naval Conference of 1930. The numbers and tonnages in each column include ships over age according to treaty terms, as well as ships that are on the building ways and ships that are still in blueprint form but for which funds have been appropriated.
RULING ON MILK IS 5 TO 4; Roberts Finds No Proof 1 Cent Differential Hurt Big Dealers. MINORITY OPINION IS SHARP M'Reynolds Asserts Borden's 'May Suffer Ruin' Solely Through Good Repute. BUT PART OF ACT IS NULL New, Small Dairies Cannot Be Barred From Benefit of Low Rate, 6-3 Decision Says. NEW YORK UPHELD ON MILK PRICES
Sup Ct upholds sections of State control law allowing cos without well-advertised trade names to sell at lower prices, in suits of Borden's Farm Products Co and Mayflower Farms
Notable Births
1936Burt Reynolds, American actor and director (died 2018)[โ ]
Burton Leon Reynolds Jr. was an American actor most famous during the 1970s and '80s. He became well known in television series such as Gunsmoke (1962โ1965), Hawk (1966) and Dan August (1970โ1971). He had leading roles in films such as Navajo Joe (1966), and 100 Rifles (1969), and his breakthrough role was as Lewis Medlock in Deliverance (1972).