Word: ens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nurse. In Promoter Rose's sock was $9,000 (of which he appropriated $1,100) contributed by parents as spending money for their offspring. For the trip, each "caravaneer" (Mr. Rose's term) was also charged from $200 to $475, depending on how much work he did en route. The cavalcade chugged westward on a 9,000-mile tour of 24 States. Whenever time permitted, the counsellors held lessons in history and geography, as prescribed in Promoter Rose's circulars. At night everybody pitched tents and, if the opportunity presented itself, Mr. Rose went off to town...
Carpenter organized the National Chip Steak Co., set out with a trailer and a steak-making outfit to demonstrate and sell. Last week he reached Chicago having licensed the process en route to Western and Midwestern manufacturers (the largest at a $10,000 fee). In addition to license fees, National Chip Steak Co. collects ⅛? per steak royalty. Present output of "Chip Steaks" is at the rate of 30,000,000 a year, monthly royalties about $2,500. By the end of 1939 Carpenter expects to see royalties of $5,000 a month. Chip Steak Corp. of Illinois which began...
...administration costs must come down to 3.3% (from 5%). > WPA workers (except veterans or heads-of-families aged 45 or more) may work only 18 months at a stretch, then be furloughed two months without pay. Every six months the rolls must be combed to en force this rule.* > WPA workers shall work no more than 130 hours a month...
...En route by liner to the U. S. was a treaty-hunting representative of hitherto uncooperative Argentina. And on the U. S. Navy cruiser Nashville, escorted by the next Chief of Staff of the U. S. Army, were Brazil's Chief of Staff Pedro de Goés Monteiro and five of his army officials...
Whittling. Also in France still were 350,000 ordinary Spanish refugees encamped en the beaches in southern France. About 90,000 of the original 500,000 refugees who crossed over the border last February have returned to Spain, and last week about 400 daily were going back to their homes. Some 9,000 former soldiers of the Spanish Republican Army have joined the French Foreign Legion and have been sent to Morocco; aviators, antiaircraft gunners, mechanics, technicians and chauffeurs are being taken into French military organizations. French arms factories have been examining daily about 250 Spanish munitions workers, and giving...