Word: backed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Salt was rubbed into Hanfstaengl's wounds nearly a year later, when form letter appealing for contributions to a National Scholarship fund was inadvertently sent out to him. Not sure that the didn't mean that Harvard had changed its mind about accepting his offer, Hanfstaengl wrote back offering to raise his offer to $10,000, to provide for the traveling fellowships for a period of ten years...
...introduced a national health bill embodying A.M.A.'s recommendations. Although the bill made no mention of compulsory health insurance, it contained a provision for Federal grants to individual States for any schemes of medical care they might wish to set up. That way, of course, is a likely back alley to socialized medicine...
...however, is the new policy an accomplished fact. Last June, a similar program was under consideration, but there came a sudden business flurry and Franklin Roosevelt sent the idea back to the dead file. Provided the stockmarket does not turn up sharply and reassure the Administration, investment spending may become the New Deal's 1939 economic program, a program in which the U. S. Government may become investment banker to the U. S. economy...
...Martin Company turned a net profit of $1,144,858. Last year it made $2,349,355 (equal to $2.15 a share) and in the first quarter of this year it made $682,496. Yet Martin has never paid a cash dividend, has ploughed back its earnings into plant expansion and reserve...
...together they begin to cultivate and repeople the abandoned land. Sample Giono description: "And today there had been rain. Like a bird it arrived, settled, and went away. The shadow of its wings had been seen passing over the hills of Néviėres. It came back and hovered around Aubignane, then flew off towards the plains. After that the sun came out and, like a mouth, breathed warmth...