Word: handly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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FSCC. Federal Surplus Commodities Corp., headed by Jesse W. Tapp, also went into action. The Lend-Spend bill gave Mr. Tapp $50,000,000. On hand from previous appropriations he still had about $30,000,000. He revealed that in June, FSCC's beneficiaries had increased by 4,000,000 to a total of 11,000,000 persons receiving surplus farm products free. With his new money Mr. Tapp set out to buy & give even more generously...
...year. Dearborn's schools are greatly influenced by his ideas. For not only do he and the Ford Motor Co. pay the major part ($1,075,499) of the city's school taxes, but he has an intense interest in education. Today, Henry Ford has a hand in the schooling, according to his own theories, of some 20,000 U. S. children, about 12,000 of them in Dearborn and the rest in dozens of other schools which he owns or supports. Chief centre of his experiments is Greenfield Village, whose schools, opened in 1929, are a part...
World's Heavyweight Championship (Wed. 10 p. m. NBC-Red & Blue). Champion Joe Louis meets Challenger Max Schmeling in the Yankee Stadium. Described by old-hand Clem McCarthy...
...proved that the moon was not made out of green cheese-by obtaining a spectrographic analysis of a piece of green cheese and comparing it with one of the moon. He has always had a passion for making apparatus out of any odd piece of junk that came to hand. On one occasion he made a telescope mounting out of an old bicycle. On another, he obtained a 20-ft. length of iron pipe, about six inches in diameter, which he intended to use as a spectroscope tube. There were cobwebs in the pipe which had to be cleaned...
...water, fizzled for several seconds before going out. When he passed the same way a quarter-hour later, the students were still arguing about how he did it. What the scientist had done was to conceal a bit of metallic sodium in a piece of paper in his hand. Sodium is so active chemically that it burns on contact with water. Dr. Wood's histrionics while spitting concealed the fact that he simultaneously dropped the sodium into the puddle...