Word: cashes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Round No. 3.-$1,450,000,000 for public works and $462,000,000 for housing, roads, flood control & Federal buildings.' Of the $1,450,000,000, $45,000,000 would be spent in cash immediately. The remaining billion would be loaned by Harold Ickes' PWA to States and other political subdivisions for public improvements. The only string would be that the works should be started within six months and completed within a year or year and a half. One new wrinkle in this works program was the suggestion that instead of the old loan-grant system...
...build new beet-sugar factories, power plants, cotton mills. Road builders arrived from Europe and America and construction companies were not long in learning that Teheran, "City of the Shadow of God." was to undergo a facial operation. The King of Kings guaranteed prompt payment in foreign cash...
...report they were unable to buy vegetables for their staffs. Other meats not available, chicken reached price levels reminiscent of early oil-rush days. Eggs were soon unobtainable. No Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. employe suffers unduly from this lack of foodstuffs, for the rich concern, having profited from cash sales of oil to warring Italy three years ago, can import vast quantities of canned foods...
...advisers such leading Chicago lights as Professor Paul Howard Douglas. University of Chicago economist, and Charles P. Schwartz. of the Chicago Plan Commission. Others, like Edwin L. Kuh Jr., a director of Chicago's Board of Trade, and President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago, gave cash to keep The Beacon burning. Getting such hard-hitting liberals as Harold L. Ickes and Robert Marion La Follette to write for him, Factotum Harris soon found himself free to do an editor's job. His most constant local target was Chicago's notorious Kelly-Nash machine. Editor...
...benches. Some of the exhibitors dropped around with their chisels and took final, finicking chips. Despite some absurdities and a monotonous tendency among neo-archaic stone sculptors to leave their forms looking only partly chewed, able and varied work was on hand from Sculptors William Zorach, Warren Wheelock, Harold Cash, Herbert Ferber, José de Creeft, Chaim Gross, Maurice Glickman, Hy Freilicher, Berta Margoulies, Concetta Scaravaglione...