Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other national parks, in addition to 40 national monuments, are the charge of Director Cammerer. During the fiscal year he will spend some $5,000,000 on them, receive from hotel concessions and entry fees some $1,000,000. His efficient and resourceful staff of 3,000 will counsel, direct and rescue from petty difficulties 1,700,000 visitors before the summer is over. All of this will be a familiar routine to Mr. Cammerer...
...while he was still Tsarevich, young Nicholas sailed with a gorgeous retinue into dazzled Vladivostok. This outpost of the Russian Empire he proclaimed -quite in the manner of Edward of Wales today-must be linked by rail with St. Petersburg. Preferably the line should run direct, cutting from Vladivostok straight across North Manchuria, then Chinese. Five years later China's wicked old Empress Dowager sent to Nicholas II's coronation an ancient Chinese with a world-great name and an itching palm, the Viceroy Li Hung-chang...
...what the family had long known-that Stepson-in-law Martin was not to succeed to the throne. His wife. Alice, was bequeathed $100,000 outright. But so far as the publishing property is concerned, there was no provision for a Martin or any other Pillsbury issue until the direct line of Boks should wither away. To Mary Louise Bok her father left his residences at Wyncote and at Camden, Me., his gorgeous yacht Lyndonia, the income from his Curtis stock, everything he owned-except the stock itself. That went to a board of seven trustees composed...
...cross examination Dr. Jelliffe had to be cautioned by the judge to give direct answers to Mr. Medalie, and not to wander from the question...
...budget (see below); $400,000,000 from the regular payment into the Public Debt Sinking Fund. ¶ His "capital" budget, to be raised by special borrowing, will include: $3,300,000,000 for public works; $500,000,000 for direct jobless relief, $400,000,000 to start the bank deposit guarantee fund. Domestic Allotment farm relief, home and farm mortgage relief, etc. Special taxes have been segregated to service this special budget. ¶ During fiscal 1933 the Public Debt increased $3,051,000,000 to $22,539,000,000 -high point since 1922. The incease in the Public Debt...