Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...increase in the Government's cash on hand. He also subtracted $1,095,000,000 of assets acquired by RFC and other Government lending agencies. Then he also subtracted $2,800,000,000 of "profit" from devaluating the gold content of the dollar, a decidedly tricky item. The gold profit does provide a means which some day can be used to pay New Deal expenses, but it nonetheless represented a cost to the country. If the New Deal called in all silverware, and then handed back seven teaspoons for every twelve turned in, the Treasury would have another ''profit...
...leading article an acidulous diatribe against Dartmouth and its murals by Harvey Maitland Watts, a director of Philadelphia's Moore Institute of Art, Science and Industry. Prouder of his "The Gulf Stream Myth and Its Relation to the Mild Climate of Europe" is Critic Watts than of any other item in his career as a lecturer and author. Wrote he in the Art Digest...
...crop is worth $250,000,000 but last year, with prices not far from rock bottom, it brought only $180,000,000. Processed into cigarets, cigars, snuff and quids, it is worth $1,000,000,000 annually, and its taxes provide the U. S. Government with its largest single item of miscellaneous revenue ($400,000,000 per year). The marketing of tobacco products is a triumph of modern salesmanship but the marketing of raw tobacco is about two steps removed from trading with the Indians, who gave the world the weed. When his crop is cured the farmer takes...
...Mount Carmel (Pa.) Item...
...religious leader, who says the world is flat, has notified his followers that the world will end Sept. 10. ... He says that those in his colony on Sept. 10 will be saved, that the rest can go to Hell, Editor's Note-The doomed will include all delinquent Item subscribers. Play safe and pay up at once, as we don't want to chase all over Hell after these bills...