Word: allotment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Director Vidal got Civil Works Administration to allot $10,000,000 of which more than 80% will go for wages to 50,000 laborers. At an average cost of $5,000 each the landing fields will be unpretentious, unlighted, will consist in most cases simply of two landing strips 3,000 ft. by 300 ft. Municipalities will provide only the unimproved land, will loan road-building machinery if they have...
...editors of the CRIME modestly put forward a program by which the diplomats of Lehman Hall can rehabilitate themselves. According to Endicott, Emery, Inc., to keep the Library open at night would, deplete the coffers of the Harvard Square Landlords, and to allot a vacant lot for car parking would empty the money boxes of the Brattle Square Law Lords...
...saving $2,000,000. In Toledo they were to open three weeks late. Elsewhere in Ohio, one-third of the schools had no money to open. Last week the Legislature was considering means of raising $8,700,000 for the schools. It was also faced with a proposal to allot $3,000,000 in State aid to Roman Catholic parochial schools, the Catholics holding that they are entitled to aid since they pay taxes for public schools. Aid failing, they predict that Ohio's public schools will be swamped with 171,305 Catholic children. ¶ Last Spring, with...
...excursion into the bond market, in fact the first long-term Treasury issue since September 1931. The rush of investors for the new bonds was generally interpreted as one more manifestation of the public's confidence in its President and his program. Because the Treasury had promised to allot in full all subscriptions of $10,000 or less it was expected that the issue would greatly exceed $500,000,000. The result will be that on Aug. 15 the Treasury will have on hand the largest cash balance in its history-some $1,500,000,000. But President Roosevelt...
...never crosses his elder brother, never argues with him; simply lets him explode, then goes ahead to do what should be done. In the early days of the Fair he wanted to allot $10,000 a year for publicity. Cried Charley: "Damn it. just do something. Then the newspapers will publish it. The hell with spending that much money!" Rufus said nothing, allotted the $10,000 when the time came...