Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Following the not inconsiderable amount of discussion which has been heard around the College during the past year about tutorial, its weaknesses, and financial problems involved, the President has decided to investigate conditions with an eye to instituting some change...
...doles, to experiment with work relief, surplus farm commodities and rural rehabilitation. In the third stage (1935-36) President Roosevelt himself became the big relief man with $4,880,000,000 to allot as he saw fit. Secretary Ickes got the spending of only $440,000,000 of that amount, of which $100,000,000 was for housing. Administrator Hopkins spent $933,000,000 on doles before he succeeded in making the states take over direct relief. By June 30 he will have spent some $1,495,000,000 additional on Works Progress Administration, the fancy name for work relief...
...told me exactly what had been done and that the amount involved was about ?4,000. I said to my son: 'Is that everything that you have done?' and he said yes. I asked him: 'Have you done anything for yourself?' My son replied: 'Not a copper, father...
...Oats are good for the skin and tend to preserve other foods. Special oat flour is used in soap, cosmetics, facials, sunburn preparations. Potato chips and nuts dusted with oat flour are supposed to stay fresh longer. Lard containing 5% oat flour keeps better than pure lard. A small amount of oat flour in coffee preserves the aroma. Chief objection to oat flour is that the improvement in the quality of the treated food is not great enough to overcome processors' fear of being accused of adulteration. Hence the oat millers have devised packaging paper coated with oat flour...
...field. Excitement, however, petered out quickley. It was learned that the drilling had been done not by the railroad. K. C. S. happened to own outright a quarter-mile strip of property along its right-of-way near from the well drilled there will be inconsiderable this year, may amount to $100,000 next...