Word: eras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unemployment on its way back to where it was when WPA first appeared, Washington had little confidence that its $250,000,000 contributed anything to a fundamental solution of the problem. Last month, WPA offered an account of what the nation has been getting for its money. Through three ERA and two deficiency appropriation acts, a total of $8,671,078,685 has been granted by Congress for relief. More than half of this amount has been allocated to WPA, making it the New Deal's greatest spending agency. Wages and salaries accounted for 85% of the money spent...
...down on paper was a slick-haired Kentuckian, Ben Harney, whose songs Mr. Johnson Turn Me Loose and You've Been a Good Old Wagon, but You've Done Broke Down were hits in the gay 'nineties. Last week 66-year-old Harney, forgotten in the era of swing, died of heart disease in a Philadelphia rooming house...
Delving into one of the most significant phenomena of the present era, Miss Fisher has made an important contribution to the lore of horticulture. It is no easy thing to stage a flower show; you have to have flowers. This fact has been ably set forth in a manual indispensable to the amateur gardener. Displaying a rare gifts for clear exposition, and never afraid to call a spade a spade. Miss Fisher has given us of her best...
...sales tax would mean a return to the prohibition era," said Representative Miller, "In tax evasions and increase of government agents to enforce the tax." He claimed that the sales tax would strike at the small home owners and would give the money to the large holders of real estate...
...bankruptcy of such a large house would have caused a speculative wave of selling. Second, Mr. Whitney marks a milestone in the rapidly disappearing element of "old guardism," which is seeing the eradication of its laissez-faire doctrine. With the triumph of governmental control comes the end of an era in which historians will include both the prosperity of the twenties and the barrenness of the thirties...