Word: locally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Major Berry began corralling mineral leases in the Tennessee Valley in 1932 with a Knoxville real-estate man named C. A. Harris as partner and W. H. Ford, a local promoter, as their agent. Ford continued to sign leases after President-elect Roosevelt first submitted his plan for a series of dams in the Tennessee Valley in substantially the form of the present TVA. Last of the 252 leases, each calling for a consideration of $1 and mostly providing for minimum royalties up to 25? an acre if mineral production was not begun within twelve months, was registered on March...
...Boston Community Fund, the centralized drive for a great group of Hub charities was voted $250, while three surely local Cambridge charities will receive $125. The Family Welfare of Cambridge, the Cambridge Y.M.C.A., and the Cambridge Neighberhood House, are included in this group...
Disbursing $675 in the form of six Council Scholarships and grants to four local charities, the Student Council voted the largest amount at a single meeting since the beginning of the college year, last night in University Hall...
...divided economic planning into two related categories, constructive and operative, the former preparing the way for the latter. In laying the groundwork for this planning, the aid of local authorities is essential...
...permanent personnel is selling what N.A.M. calls the "American Way" to the U. S. public. It furnishes newspapers with free stories, provides platform and radio speakers with free speeches, has made four cinema shorts including one on standards of living. It teaches businessmen how to create local goodwill by opening their plants to public inspection tours. And N.A.M.'s were the sanguine posters that dotted the highways early last year, showing nattily dressed workmen and their immaculate families joyriding and picnicking in the "American...