Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accident is Tennessee's George L. Berry a millionaire. He worked hard to build the International Printing Pressmen & Assistants' Union, which still pays him $10,000 per year as its president. He worked hard, too, to build up his profitable playing card factory. He invested shrewdly in equities and real estate (his 20,000-acre farm at Mooresburg is one of eastern Tennessee's finest and he makes it pay). He worked hard but in vain to collect a claim for $1,600,000 when he thought he had a case against the Government for some marble...
...Welfare. Now, for weeks, Washington wiseacres had been saying Secretary Roper of Commerce would be let out to make room for Friend Hopkins, with twofold purpose: to take him out of the Congressional barrage soon to fall upon his WPA; to throw him into contact with businessmen and build him up as 1940 Presidential timber...
Typical report from a local Plant-to-Prosper winner: "We tore down an old outhouse and saved the roofing and flooring to build an additional room to our home. . . . We set out seven shade trees and 25 fruit trees . . . have taken better care of the hens, cows, pigs, garden and truck patches. . . ." One Missouri tenant farmer's wife was so enthusiastic she sewed "Plant-to-Prosper" on her son's basketball uniform...
...improve the schools, however, Dr. Pritchard saw that he had to educate the adults who ran them. So he provided tuition in universities and psychiatric clinics for groups of teachers, supervisors, school board members, ministers, newspaper editors, physicians, nurses, dentists, veterinarians. The Foundation also offered to help build new schools. At first the inhabitants voted down these offers, were apathetic to this attempt to lift the general level of living of the whole community. But gradually the Foundation saw to it that the schools acquired toilets and electric lights, better instruction and medical attention, and in general the darkened communities...
...illness. On some occasions it is conceivable that a variety of contagious diseases might be found in one "observation" ward. On the basis of these and other facts, it seems that stillman needs such a thorough overhauling that the best and certainly the most practical plan would be to build a new infirmary...