Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these beneficences, the 21 municipalities, said Mr. Ickes. must "make 'reasonable efforts in good faith' to purchase the facilities with which the applicants would be in competition. . . ." Asked who would be the judge of such efforts, Public Works Administrator Ickes declared: "I don't know anyone better qualified to judge what is fair and reasonable than the Administrator of Public Works." Asked if he anticipated trouble from the private utilities, Mr. Ickes said: "I never anticipate trouble, especially when I know it is coming...
This week, tireless Butler Moody, well on his way to becoming a domestic tycoon, also announced in Staff that he would supervise a commercially-sponsored series of films in the interests of better living for the masses. The motto: "If you cannot afford to employ help in your own home, at least know how to do things right...
...farm. The 1938 crop estimated at 967,000,000 but, will be the second largest on record, and Commodity Credit Corp. has set aside $100,000,000 for the loans. Purpose of the loans is to let farmers keep their wheat off the market until they can get a better price. Secretary Wallace chose the minimum rate permitted by the 1938 AAA, but wheat prices on exchanges promptly sagged as brokers figured the loan might actually turn out to be the maximum price, as occurred with last year's 9? cotton loans...
...Battle, a far better book than Mr. Sheean's last novel, Sanfelice, is compact and tightly organized instead of sprawling and discursive. But having acknowledged the historical unimportance of the victory, Mr. Sheean's triumph with A Day of Battle sometimes resembles the triumph of the French at Fontenoy...
Father Swann's son Isaiah, brought up with the other children of the commune, came back from Yale with misgivings about the Other Plane. He wanted to marry Dinah, the pretty, credulous ward of the Temple. Father Swann told him he had better wait. Meanwhile, Father Swann rarely got spirit communications any more; the Temple's mediums were out of practice. When the Temple went through its first crisis, a diphtheria epidemic, Father Swann ignored the advice of the spirit doctor and the spectral Association of Healthfulizers and cast out the Sore-Throat Devil...