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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Five acres of soil with each house will enable Homesteaders to raise their own food, sell a surplus. For house & garden they will pay the Government $15-$20 a month for 20 years, payments to begin two years after occupancy. To construct and equip a factory in Reedsville to make furniture and other things for the Post Office Department $525,000 of PWA funds were allotted last October by Secretary Ickes. Construction of the building will provide some 2.000 man-months of labor for Homesteaders, and on completion the plant will give permanent employment to some 150.* Eventually the Government...
...third day a huge gallery followed Cox and Cruickshank, playing together. They finished their last two rounds tied at 295. Sarazen followed them a few minutes later slopping home with 294. Not until Sarazen had posted his score did the crowd at the 18th green begin to wonder what had become of Dutra. He and Lawson Little were the last pair in the field. Playing with almost no gallery, taking a pill which his caddy offered him every hour, Dutra, 15 Ib. lighter than when the tournament began, was on the 15th tee, waiting for officials to silence a yapping...
...private reception in the Mayor's office. Minutes passed before word of the mixup reached Mayor Stewart who rushed down to find the representative of the Crown red as a beet under his plumed hat, and already seated on the reviewing stand waiting for the parade to begin. Stammering apologies Mayor Stewart asked his Lordship if he would care to come back for the reception...
From these cryptic words, Fascist theorists last week deduced that on the day Italy declares war, Mussolini will begin state capitalism, take over all industrial, commercial, agricultural and transport activities. Both employers and workers will be paid fixed salaries in scrip or ration cards. The profits, estimated at 100 billion lire ($8,600,000,000) a year, will go to the Government. Not loans, not taxes, but business profits, will thus finance Italy's next...
...Book, By this point readers may begin to see why Author Mann, with all of Europe's complicated culture to embroider on, chose rather to go back to Asia to wake a slumbering legend. Originally attracted by the charm and the tantalizing brevity of this "natural narrative" of Jacob and his sons, Mann soon saw greater & greater depths in the story, an unsuspected universality in its theme. Readers will expect much more than a refurbished narrative of the tale of Joseph and they will not be disappointed. Author Mann has woven the threads of myth, history and fiction into...