Word: keeping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remedy as contained in the House farm bill: A new Federal Board with $500,000,000 in credits. Farm producers would join in cooperative associations to which the Federal Board would loan money at 4%. With this money the cooperatives would buy and hold enough of the crop to keep the supply down to the demand, thus eliminating a surplus, keeping up prices. Off-season they would dribble out for sale their crop holdings at a steady price. Likewise, to get more of the consumer's dollar, they would market their own produce and thereby squeeze out haphazard, wasteful...
...Cabinet was represented as a squad of robots. His official secretariat was lampooned as running around frantically to keep busy. In song he was reminded that he was but "king for a day." His administrative machine was described as "water-cooled, dry-batteried and using...
...college undergraduates who get 130 TIME subscriptions, at $5 each, TIME gives a five-week flying course and pays all expenses of tuition and keep. The course ends with ten hours solo flying and qualification for Government private pilot license. For details write John Sargent, TIME Inc., 2500 Prairie Avenue, Chicago...
...said it: that calisthenics (his profession) is a commercial exploitation of people's desires to keep fit; that people should better walk far at 4 m.p.h., play tennis and golf, swim, ride horseback, tramp, hike; that for "physical illiterates" setting up exercises are good; that his getting up exercises were better...
...included 100% of early walnuts, 95% of peaches, 100% of apricots, 90% of pears. In Sutter, Yuba, and Butte counties combined, the loss was some $10,000,000. Citrus crops were not harmed. Over many a California county hung last week the stinking smudge of oil-fires, burning to keep the frost away from the remaining crops. Possible losses to banks and insurance companies have not been estimated. Farmers in many sections, particularly the San Joaquin valley, are heavily mortgaged, and many a bank has become, involuntarily, a farm owner* Makers of tin cans, too, may notice a slackening demand...