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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Investmentwise: 1939's $1,665,000,000 arms bill is insignificant alongside the average 1918-19 War year investment of $13,000,000,000, which did make a real difference to business...
...capacity year for them; U. S. steel capacity is over 70,000,000 tons, British steel capacity is 14,000,000. British industry is now for the first time getting a real lift from arms spending of $2,948,000,000 for defense-44% more than our 1939 bill. To achieve a proportional effect on a five-for-one basis, U. S. arms appropriations would have to be $14,740,000,000 a year. If this discourages businessmen about the prospect of armament, it may also encourage them by the assurance that U. S. National Defense expenditures will not pervert...
This mighty musical meal over, Cincinnatians stretched, patted their stomachs, paid the bill ($72,000-of which $63,000 had been recovered at the box office) and started to plan for the festival of 1941. Visitors to the May Festival went thoughtfully away, realizing that the nearest thing yet to the muchdiscussed, hypothetical "Salzburg of the U. S." is to be found in Cincinnati...
Against Williams the Crimson presented a makeshift lineup since Walt Muther and John Palfrey were absent, but won as they pleased with Dave Burt and Captain Gilkey leading the way. Jack Stewart and Bill Everts scored the other Crimson singles wins, while all the doubles matches were swept by the Barnabymen...
Harvard's other first places went to Bill Shallolw, who tossed the hammer out beyond the 164 foot mark for his best throw this year; to Captain Bob Haydock who cleared the bar at six feet in the high jump; to Charley Smith for a 9.9 second Century; to Torby Macdonald in the Furlong; and to Bob Partlow, who upset Yale's Hunt Ethridge in the broad jump with a 22 foot, 9 and one quarter inch leap