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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After that his troubles were over. When blind Astronomer Edwin Brant Frost retired in 1932, Struve succeeded him as Yerkes' director. His valuable and multifarious work there includes discovery of the biggest star known to man-an almost transparent body four billion miles across which like a monstrous ghost accompanies the well-known star Epsilon Aurigae (TIME...
...have between them 65 bishops, some 25,000 ministers, about 43,000 churches, 2,900 schools and colleges, many a hospital and social-service agency, several rich publishing houses, a combined budget of $80,000,000 a year, a total investment in the U. S. of well over a billion dollars...
...States come up here and ask for more and more money. Where does it come from? It comes from the pockets of your own people. We are signing the names of your children, and of children yet unborn, to pay off that 40 billion dollar debt. . . . You people out there look to Washington, but I look to the people. If the time ever comes when the American people are no longer able to operate their democratic system of government, that government will have to find a Hitler or a Mussolini to do its business...
...families expect to attend the New York fair and President Whalen estimated that each visitor would spend $56 apiece, a reasonable estimate since Manhattan's nightlife and Manhattan's shops provide more chances to spend money than Chicago's. All told, he foresees a billion dollars worth of business for New York City, which is supposed to swell to $10,000,000,000 before it has spent its force. The fair estimates that the billion will be spent as follows...
...baby produced in the President's next message was inspired by Chairman Marriner Eccles of the Federal Reserve Board: the promise of an 80-billion-dollar national income to be obtained by continued public spending. Ever since that birth, the President's Cabinet meetings have been sparring matches instead of consultations, with Mr. Ickes, Miss Perkins...