Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Edgar Hoover of the Federal Bureau of Investigation stepped briskly before the Senate Appropriations subcommittee to plead for an increase of $1,025,000 in his organization's 1937 spending money. Kidnapping would sweep the country again, he said, if one cent were slashed from the proposed amount. Promptly Tennessee's McKellar launched a blistering attack on the Bureau for strong-arm methods, swell-headedness. "It seems to me," the vociferous Senator snapped, "your department is just running wild." Evidently more impressed by Senator McKellar than by Director Hoover, the subcommittee sliced $225,000 off the Bureau...
Prevention: Avoidance of "profound emotional stress produced principally by accident hazards and social and economic insecurity." Emotional stress "can be off set by suitable compensation, either ego-stimulating or monetary. Since modern commercial aviation lacks any great amount of ego-stimulation, it remains to establish some standard to determine at approximately what point [monetary] compensation overcomes the effect of the accident hazard...
...make every spring is to encourage sportswriters to instill into baseball addicts profitably enthusiastic curiosity. Principal topics of early baseball reports are, consequently, players recruited from minor-league teams. Few widely heralded rookies live up to advance promises. There is, however, no yardstick for their future importance except the amount of publicity they receive. Most publicized rookie of the current year is Joseph Di Maggio, 21, outfielder from the San Francisco Seals for whom the New York Yankees exchanged a reputed $75,000 and five players...
Despite the reassurances of the treasure's expert Chinese guardians, who said that no amount of shaking could harm it in its 90 silk-lined steel cases, His Majesty's Government spent a jittery three days before tugs succeeded in hauling the Ranpura off its bad spot...
...crew is not yet smooth. Yesterday the entire boat was jumping the stroke a fraction of a second. Even Chace's competence at stroke failed to prevent a certain amount of splashing and rushing in the informal race. Added to this is the fact that at the pull through, balance is disturbed, making recovery difficult, by the tendency of the shell as a whole to swing with the oar, leaning out of the vertical. If these faults can be eradicated before the race, Whiteside will have good crew, but not by any means to judge from present appearances, a remarkable...