Word: extents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Toledo's public-spirited John David Biggers last week resigned his job as administrator of the U. S. Unemployment Census, resumed his job as president of big Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co. (flat glass). To his friend Franklin Roosevelt, Mr. Biggers left many a fact & figure underlining the extent and the why of unemployment. In a letter announcing that the census was complete, he wrote: "The most significant fact ... is that 2,740,000 more persons have entered the labor market since 1930 than were to have been expected from past experience. This entire increase is made...
...Czechoslovak Government, after studying the Godesberg Demands, rejected them to the extent of saying it would refuse to cede the Sudetenland under Hitler's new terms, but not to the extent of refusing further negotiation. It did not take back the Czechoslovak acceptance of the Berchtesgaden Plan. According to the Polish and Hungarian Governments, the Czechoslovak Government informed them this week that it was also ready to negotiate their claims to parts of Czechoslovakia...
Even at that, Shepard, in an interview at his home in Petersham, site of the Forest and center of the carnage, expressed doubt that terrible fires could be avoided if October is a normally dry month. The extent of the havoc in this region can be judged from the fact that in the 2,300 acre Harvard reservation an estimated half to two-thirds of the old growth and much of the younger timber was felled by the wind, measuring from five to ten million board feet...
...extent of the fire hazard in the shape of fallen timber is shown by the almost total loss of the 2,300 acre Harvard forest in Petersham where between five and ten million board feet of lumber are down. In an attempt to preserve the safety of lives and property in this region by prompt emergency measures Ward Shepard '10 Director of the Harvard Forest, is in Boston today to confer with Harry Hopkins, head of the W. P. A., and state officials...
...seems to us that this man has had little contact with Harvard undergraduates, else he would be aware of a sharp interest in the problems of American democracy and in solutions that will Harvard to the extent that he uses his education to think roundly about the real world in which he lives...