Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...twelve Federal land banks. The U. S. started these banks off with $750,000 capital each. They can loan money to help farmers to buy land; to purchase equipment, fertilizer, seed, livestock; to build buildings; to liquidate mortgages. Interest may not exceed 6%. Loans up to $25,000 are given on 50% of the appraised value of land and 20% of permanent improvements. Borrowers have to join local National Farm Loan Associations, buying stock in the banks equivalent to 5% of their loans. In this way, the U. S. has received most of its capital back and the Land Banks...
...movies" would be ruined in Indianapolis if clocks were put ahead one hour. Mr. Nicholson retorted that he had just been in Manhattan, which seemed to be doing well on Daylight Saving Time, and averred that the cinema industry was not going to step in, if he could help it, to say that Indianapolitans should not have an extra hour in their public parks...
...base ship Citta di Milano complaining of heavy winds and encrusting ice. These difficulties had interfered with Pilgrim Nobile's previous trip to Leninland (TIME, May 28). Suddenly the messages ceased . . . fears deepened . . . in San Francisco an S.O.S. was picked up from a Vladivostok station, a message asking help for the Italia in English, French, Italian. No position was given...
...more female hirelings of the corporation, sick, according to Lawyer Berry and many doctors, unto death. For these five there is no light in darkness except the glow of gold indemnity. Their malady is incurable. Eleven years ago, merry giggling girls of 16, 17, 18, they got jobs to help out at home, learned to paint the luminous numerals on watch faces. Quinta, Albina, and Amelia Maggia thought themselves lucky to find work in the same plant. Amelia is dead-her body was exhumed to prove that the death diagnosis was wrong but her dead bones are still luminous with...
...bosoms. Heartbreaking were the tales of their torture. Publicity hastened the case to trial through the lagging courts. Some found doctors who thought the women might not die. No one found a doctor who thought they might be completely cured. Said Katherine Schaub: "Do you think getting married will help me? . . . I don't buy anything. . . . I haven't any money. . . . I'm-worried. . . . When I die I'll only have lilies on my coffin, not roses as I'd like. . . . If I won my $250,000, mightn't I have lots of roses...