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Shortcut. In Springfield, Mass., a thief rushed up to Pedestrian Dennis Kneeland, snipped off part of his necktie, missed by an inch getting his $150 diamond stickpin...
...license, and the banker got him a loan enabling him in 1916 to start a combination pool room and Greek restaurant on Knee of carrying itself, Cocoris scrapped the pool room. The concern moved to its present location on the second floor at 51 Stuart Street in 1925 when Kneeland Street was widened...
...survey showed 14% getting under $500 a year, 42% under $1,000, 65% under $1,500, 87% under $2,500. Ten percent had incomes from $2,500 up to $5,000; only 1%, $10,000 or over. Individuals had practically an identical income range. Lumping the two, Dr. Kneeland found that 32% of the total had annual incomes under $750, 47% under $1,000, 69% less than...
Following the Roosevelt lead and splitting the nation's consumer incomes into thirds, Dr. Kneeland found that the 13,000,000 families and individuals in the lower third received under $780 a year, were not a distinct or unusual social group but included all types of consumers in all sorts of communities. Fully 70% of them were not getting any form of relief, although their average income was$471 a year. The middle third of 13,000,000 averaged $1,076; the top third, just under $3,000-but this was a meaningless figure because of the tremendous range...
...same period the Department of Commerce computed national income at $59,584,000,000. Dr. Kneeland's report explains the difference by pointing out that her survey, but not the Department of Commerce's, added in such items as "imputed net rental value of owned homes occupied by their owners...