Word: april
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cabinet approved record appropriations of $2,500,000,000 for the three defense arms during the fiscal year beginning April i. This sum does not include the supplementary appropriations which can be obtained if & when necessary to match Germany's increasing armed strength. About half of the huge sum will be met by a defense loan, the rest from Government funds, thus necessitating no increase in Britain's already almost intolerable tax rate...
...created in April...
Never before has the U. S. had a show like Mr. Fechner's. By statute, its purposes are: 1) to provide employment (plus vocational training), and 2) to conserve and develop "the natural resources of the United States." For this, CCC between April 5, 1933 and December 31, 1938 spent $2,125,000,000. On its rolls had been 2,120,000 men, the number varying widely at various times. A few hard facts show that the U. S. got more for its money from CCC than from most other depression-begotten experiments...
Europe raced last week toward another dictator-manufactured international crisis. Italy called out 60,000 men for training, stationed 30,000 troops at Genoa and La Spezia. France virtually doubled her mobilization speed, decided to call up 80,000 recruits in April instead of October. Britain took the first step toward conscription (see p. 16). From Germany came alarming reports of troop movements: five new mechanized divisions had been created, two whole divisions, equipped for "desert operations," passed over the Brenner Pass into Italy headed presumably for Italian Africa, trucks were requisitioned and "spring" maneuvers were scheduled to start February...
...still growing, has a powerful left hook, has defeated five one-time world's middleweight champions. Johnny Paychek, a Des Moines bellhop, is the hope of the Midwest. Onetime national Golden Gloves champion, sedate, violin-playing Johnny Paychek has won 16 fights (twelve by knockouts) since last April...