Word: helps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...land. When Henry Wallace projected AAA which required a nation-wide executive setup to estimate crop acreages, the Farm Bureau's 1,800 functioning county organizations stepped into the breach and Ed O'Neal stepped into the Administration. Although the New Deal's lavish benefit payments helped all farm organizations, they helped big Farm Bureau Federation most. When the Supreme Court intervened to break up AAA, Ed O'Neal stayed on to help Henry Wallace salvage what he could with the Soil Conservation Act. So this year when Franklin Roosevelt, in the face of mounting agricultural...
...working-girl budgets, arrived at the figure of $23.30 per week for a woman living alone. For a girl living at home the estimate was $20.70. This was of course pure theory, since the New York laundry industry for which the budget was prepared pays its female help as low as $6 per week and an average of $13. The board would be quickly put through the wringer if it attempted at one stroke to double any industry's wage scale...
...oldster's. Last week old John Wesley Amos told Charity Hospital eye surgeons: "Frank's been very good to me. Not many young fellows would bother to cheer up an old man like the way Frank's done. If you figure one of my eyes can help Frank see, I want you to take my eye and give...
...Beamish. Superintendent Fenstermacher gave a guttural gasp. The notice read: "I assume that a theoretical breakdown of considerable magnitude has taken place. ..." With Allentown plunged into theoretical darkness, demand was made that the plant produce power immediately. There were only five men in the plant and the nearest skilled help was 200 miles away in Williamsport. Superintendent Fenstermacher sent a frantic call to his company's 23-story Allentown office building. Vice President N. S. Reinicker hurried over with 20 elevator operators who crawled impetuously inside the boilers to start fires with kindling wood. Two hours later Lawyer Kelley...
...subsequent decline in other industries brought worse news, for railroad revenue began to fall on most fronts. Car-loadings are now some 20% under last year at the same season. With 28% of U. S. trackage already in the courts, the railroads were quick to clamor for Government help in the form of a general 15% rise in railroad freight rates. For a month railroad men and business leaders have almost unanimously maintained that the alternative to a rate rise is Government operation. Hearings before the Interstate Commerce Commission in Washington by last week had become such a unanimous parade...