Word: less
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although optimism was the conference's keynote, speakers warned conservationists not to relax their efforts. Less than a third of the $3,250,000 excise tax, for example, has been passed along by Congress to the State Governments, which have the spending of it.† Other pressing problems: some of the most desirable species of fish (sturgeon, Lake Erie cisco, bloater, black & blue fins) are now extinct in the Great Lakes, and the famed Lake Superior whitefish are fast disappearing; municipalities often have to be forced to stop pollution of streams; the increasing number of hunters...
Sweeping are the indictments against U. S. teachers: 1) they know too little about a) the subjects they teach, b) social conditions, c) children; and 2) they don't like children. Average training of U. S. elementary schoolteachers is less than two years of normal school. Teaching attracts a less able group than any other profession. Moreover, the chances are seven-to-one that a pupil in twelve years of public schooling will get two teachers who are neurotic or downright psychopathic for these reasons...
...Teachers are worried. Teaching is so wearing and insecure (less than one-third have long-term tenure) that the average teacher lasts only eight to twelve years...
...Congress is about to consider the Patman Chain Store Tax bill, which would exterminate the big chains. Chief reason the chains fear the bill may become law is that no less than 22 States have already imposed chain taxes-and in a far-reaching decision, Louisiana's was upheld by the U. S. Supreme Court. Last week, chain store men found solace in Pennsylvania, whose graduated tax ranging up to $500 per store has been one of the stiffest yet imposed. Because Pennsylvania's Constitution requires that all taxes must be uniform, Dauphin County Court declared it invalid...
...would have stopped, local taxes gone unpaid, a resounding local depression started. But after the 1933 Bank Holiday, the New Deal set up Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Since then banks have paid .08¼% of their average daily deposits to FDIC, thus insuring all deposits of $5,000 or less...