Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Board, Cato Sells (Woodrow Wilson's Indian Commissioner) was succeeded by a gentleman named Jesse Jones. An election in 1932 made Jesse Jones and another Texan. John Nance Garner, men of importance in Washington. Therefore the U. S. dipped into its Treasury for $3,000,000, a larger amount than it had ever contributed for a similar occasion, to match Texas' equal appropriation...
...show is what Dallas advertises, but of that sum $12,000,000 is credited to exhibitors (largest: Ford $2,250,000; General Motors $950,000; Chrysler $500,000) and $5,000,000 to concessionaires. Actual amount put into the Fair by the management is somewhat less than $8,000,000, including Federal, state and city contributions. Head of the Exposition corporation is a hardfisted, onetime country banker, Robert L. Thornton. General manager of the Exposition is a onetime Dallas real estate man, William A. Webb. To start with they had the old State Fair grounds plus some 28 acres...
...private place, but of recent years the rapid increase in recreation has brought the demand for men trained in the profession to a point where it now exceeds the available supply. While the principal work of the landscape office in former years, the private place, has decreased, the amount of work on public projects of various sorts, mostly of a public recreational character, has increased to a surprising extent. This public work at present includes the various types of developments for the public use by the National Park Service, the United States Forest Service, the Resettlement Administration, and various State...
...point during the past few years, but the desire to have better and more attractive surroundings is so inherent a trait in this country that it would seem to be within reason to expect this phase of the landscape professional work to return to somewhere near its former amount within a few years
...vexed at my heart to see it be only the good Samaritan, Max Keezer. So we to do great bargaining and I very merry to hear him talk. But I not to give in to his offerings for I have heard his next step is to flip for the amount of the disagreement; and I did wait for this; and, bless my soul, it did come. But I, very foxy, would not do it after all. So he to walk out, but soon, waving his hands and all a bubble, did decide to give in at "a sacrifice". I much...