Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...totalling $16,940,000,000.* To the Allied Powers during the War he passed out $7,296,000,000 which, with $2,170,000,000 advanced after the Armistice, became the War Debts. As the man directly responsible for these loans, he made their collection in full a major item in his campaign. Said...
Each & every U. S. citizen last year swallowed 133.2 lb. of meat inclusive of goats. Since the end of the beefsteak era meat consumption has tended to decrease. Pork has supplanted beef as the prime item of U. S. meat diet. Highest per capita meat consumption was in the panic year 1907?155.1 lb. As Food Administrator, Herbert Clark Hoover brought it down to 120 lb. in 1917, but it had climbed back to 149.7 lb. by 1924. Theories of balanced rations and a trend to vegetarianism have since cut it down sharply...
Current news items on War Debts for years back have created a grossly exaggerated view of the size of international war debts. An example of this is contained in your editorial comment (TIME, Aug. 8). You state the present national wealth of the United States at $329,700,000,000 and you give the War Debts to the United States at $22,230,000,000. The present value of the national wealth is $329,700,000,000. The present value, on a 3½% interest basis, of the payments totalling $22,230,000,000 which we are scheduled to receive...
Sirs: I have noted the item entitled "Bad Bear' which appeared on the page headed Animals of your issue of July 18. This morning I ran across a somewhat different version of this story in the weekly publication Labor for July 19, and thought you might be interested. Am enclosing clipping. I wonder which publication reported the real facts-TIME or Labor? LAWRENCE KELDER...
Home Loans. What held the Congress in late session was a deadlock on the Home Loan Bank bill, last item on President Hoover's general relief program. Both houses were agreed upon a system of eight to twelve regional banks, backed by $125,000,000 from the Treasury, at which savings banks, building & loan associations and the like could discount their first mortgages up to $10,000 on home property valued at $20,000 or more. But the Senate had amended this bill with a currency expansion scheme of Virginia's Glass, to let national banks issue their...