Word: cash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they find no guardhouse, no drill, no saluting, no punishments that an Army private would respect. CCC scamps may be confined to camp for a few days if a reprimand doesn't work. Worst that can happen is dishonorable discharge, meaning principally that an offender loses his accrued cash allowances. In the main, discipline is a matter of persuasion and good administrative sense on a C. O.'s part-good training for officers used to rule the easy way by command alone. Aside from a wise C. O., best bolster to CCC morale is promotion: a company...
...Cash pay for CCC bucks is $30 a month. Those with dependents must sign over $22 to $25 to the home folks; others must deposit $22 to $25 with the War Department Finance Officer, to be drawn when they leave. CCC figures that $102,400,000 paid enrollees in fiscal 1938 helped 1,365,000 otherwise indigent persons (an average of four dependents...
Russia's birth rate is artificially stimulated by long northern nights, a ban on abortions (abortion was legal in Russia from 1920-36) and cash prizes for prolific mothers. Her death rate is artificially stimulated by purges, famines and Manchukuoan border incidents. What the balance is will now be determined.* Dictator Stalin believes that there are 3,500,000 new Russians every year. Sent out last week to verify this were 400,000 census takers, armed with 16 questions apiece, conveyed by reindeer, camels, sleds cars, airplanes...
...fortune amassed in beer, baseball and real estate in trust for three women. Nieces Helen Silleck Holleran and Ruth Silleck Maguire each got one-third of the estate. To onetime bit-playing Actress Helen Winthrope Weyant, 37, "a very old friend," went the other third, and $300,000 in cash. To make sure that the Yankees would be maintained in the style to which they were accustomed, Colonel Ruppert stipulated that the estate should lend the Yankees all the money they need...
Like many another pilot's wife, Mrs. "Cash" Chamberlain has listened for years at 3,105 kilocycles on the short-wave radio for her husband's cheery voice while he, a 1,000,000-mile veteran, was on his Northwest Airlines runs. One night last week, after she had heard his buoyant "okay" as he left the plateau airport at Miles City, Mont., his voice suddenly came in again, strained, desperate: "Dispatcher! Dispatcher!" Later that night she learned that he, his crack copilot, Raymond B. Norby, and their two passengers were dead. Just out of Miles City...