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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Congress last week voted, and the War Department immediately spent, $46,400,000 for new airplanes, engines and other gear. The civilian in charge of Army buying, Assistant Secretary of War Louis Arthur Johnson, evinced no qualms when he reported to Franklin Roosevelt on the biggest peacetime order for aircraft. Some of the 571 planes ordered, the President heard, would do better than 400 m.p.h.; all are the best to be had. The contract awards (number of planes estimated unofficially...
...Biggest sock came to automobile owners. The annual automobile tax was upped 66⅔ % to 25 shillings a horsepower. The owner of a 30-horsepower Ford will pay each year about...
Main U. S. interest in Bolivia is still tin. The U. S. imports about 45% of the world's tin, has no mines in her own boundaries, a small one in Alaska. Basic war material, indispensable for the manufacture of bearings, tin travels far to reach its biggest market. There are big smelters in the Malay Peninsula, in The Netherlands and Great Britain, but the small smelters of the U. S. refine only a minute proportion, and Bolivian tin reaches the U. S. after a trip to Britain. Facing a possible war shortage, Bolivian tin has figured largely...
...Biggest single group (one-third) got their first jobs by going out and hunting for them. One-fourth got jobs through experience gained in self-support during college, about one-fifth through college placement bureaus, one-tenth through family influence, 2% through fraternity contacts...
...Best-paid careers for men ($2,500 or more after eight years) were dentistry, medicine, law, public office, architecture, insurance, research, forestry, business, :elephone work. Poorest-paid (averaging under $2,000): journalism, the ministry, clerical work. Biggest single group (17%) went into teaching, averaged about $2,000 eight years after graduation. Best-paid occupations for women were nursing and teaching. Big-college graduates were better paid than alumni of small colleges...