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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congress, if it failed to approve the cut, in case the 1938-39 budget is not balanced. Nonetheless, by week's end, it was rumored that the Bureau of the Budget was preparing still more drastic means of satisfying the President's desire for a balanced budget. Biggest slash being considered-in anticipation of the President's budget message to the regular session-was $500,000,000 from the $1,500,000,000 relief appropriation for the current fiscal year. Others were $100,000,000 from the PWA's appropriation...
Munn, whose biggest course has been English 1, will cover the New Testament in the second half of this course, Comparative Literature 35b. Should he be slated to take over the course permanently, the Corporation will have to approve, and they have taken no action on the subject...
...Biggest laughs of the whole film are provided by Holywood's conception of a football game. Among directorial novelties is the timekeeper who fires a gun to denote the end of the game...
...rest by a $27,800,000 issue of 4% debentures which has been completely taken by the public. Domestic and foreign participants will ante enough more money to make the Fair fund total $125,000,000, twice the Paris Exposition's cost and by all odds the biggest sum ever spent on a Fair in history...
...must build houses. A muskrat house is a haphazard domelike heap of reeds and marsh grass. Muskrats are vegetarians, so if necessary in the dead of winter they can eat their houses. Mostly each family lives alone, which makes muskrat census-taking easy. Walter Abner Gibbs, who is the biggest muskrat breeder in the eastern U. S., used to wade round his 700 acres of Maryland marshland in hip boots, counting muskrat houses to see how large his next year's catch would be. But last week impatient Walter Gibbs decided to take this year's muskrat census...