Word: blooms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even so there was some grumbling at home about the cost. When someone quipped that it would be cheaper to pave the alley with money, the Philadelphia Daily News decided to enlist the services of Director Joel Bloom of the city's Franklin Institute to see what $250,000 would literally cover. Ignoring dollar bills ("inferior wearing quality," noted the News), Bloom figured that the street could be paved with dimes for $58,368 and quarters for $82,080. In fact, Bloom added, the city could cover the alley with separate layers of dimes and quarters and still have...
...solution could be a move to Bloom Township, Ohio, a small farming community (pop. 3,500), set in rolling corn country twelve miles outside Columbus...
...established by the late Mabel Wagnalls Jones in honor of her parents, Adam W. Wagnalls, a Lithopolis boy who co-founded the Funk & Wagnalls publishing firm in 1877, and his wife Anna. When Mabel Jones died in 1946, she bequeathed $2.5 million to provide scholarships for any and all Bloom Township youths who could complete four years at one of the two high schools in the area and wanted to go on to higher education. Today the fund's officers manage an investment portfolio whose value has grown to $7.5 million-more than enough to make good...
Evidently, they are not. Much to the distress of the fund's trustees, the Wagnalls generosity seems to satisfy neither the local students nor the Internal Revenue Service. Though 159 Bloom Township boys and girls are currently receiving Wagnalls scholarships, the potential is much higher. Despite the Wagnalls largesse, only one in three Bloom Township seniors bothers to go on to college; so far only six of last June's 86 graduates have sought Wagnalls' support...
Kennedy supporters argue that he was the most damaged of all Democrats while Watergate was in full and odious bloom, since the sins of Nixon and his men called attention to Kennedy's own clinging scandal- Chappaquiddick. But, they continue, as Nixon's scandal fades, Kennedy's will fade with...