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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Corps. And last week the Navy admitted that 13 of its aviators had quit the service in the calendar year 1929. Most of the 40 men thus out of the nation's air force went to commercial flying jobs paying salaries much higher than the Government can afford...
What the Government does afford an Army Air Corps captain is a minimum basic pay of $2,000, a flying bonus of 50%, and to a single man maintenance of $696 yearly, totaling $3,696. The salary of the Navy's aviation lieutenants, senior grade (corresponding to the Army captain) is minimum basic pay of $2,400, a flying bonus of 50%, and single maintenance of $939, totaling $4,539. In both services, married men get bigger maintenance, old-timers receive slightly higher salaries. But transport pilots for huge airlines receive as much as $500 a month, equivalent...
...father left them comfortably fixed, providingly if they were very careful. . . . Herbert Hoover's mother was like all good Christian mothers, she wanted her children to have a good education . . . our country is noted for its fine public schools. . . . There's no excuse for people saying, I can not afford to send my children to school. . . . Any boy who graduated from High School with a good reputation can as a general rule get a good position...
...private construction. But the principal consuming power is in the people who have work. Unless they buy of the other fellow, he cannot buy of them. If those who have the means would pay all their retail merchandise bills and in addition purchase what they need and can afford, a healthy commerce would quickly be created. . . . No one who has money now can afford to defer settling h's accounts...
Trained nurses in most communities earn $6 and keep per day. Last week Elnora E. Thomson of Portland, Ore., incoming president of the American Nurses' Association, suggested to their convention in Milwaukee that any patient who could not afford that much and yet did not want cheap ward nursing, might put himself under one nurse's care with two or three other patients, who could split her charges. Some hospitals now have such small-group nursing...