Word: losses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Maintenance and Operation of Buildings and Grounds cost $900,000, much loss than the $1,640,000 spent the previous year...
Into the wide blue harbor of Manila last week slid the U. S. destroyer Peary. Aboard her were 52 survivors of the wrecked British freighter Silverhazel which, bound out of San Francisco for Singapore and Bombay, had gone down with a loss of four lives in San Bernardino Strait, 350 mi. southwest of the Philippine capital...
...Embassy at Moscow (TIME, July 1). Last week, with $100 raised by his family to repatriate him, the Embassy had Pentecostalist Baker brought to Moscow, thence to be shipped to the U. S. Wearing fur cap, fur-lined jacket and high boots, he joyously scrutinized the Kremlin, bemoaned the loss of his Bible. Said he: "I wasn't much more than a skeleton when the Russians picked me up. ... I couldn't make them understand what I was after, but they treated me all right. I didn't have to do a lick of work [Accepting...
...offer of $250 for Sox's return, sent 100 ushers, watchmen, clerks, grooms out to scour the neighborhood. When they returned emptyhanded, Operator O'Hara upped his reward to $1,000 alive. He bought space in Providence, Boston and other New England newspapers to announce his loss & offer. He hired time on Providence radio stations. He had poles, trees, fences plastered with posters bearing Sox's picture and "$1,000 REWARD." Soon the entire countryside crawled with children, policemen and other hopefuls poking in bushes, peering down alleys, knocking at doors...
...chemists were out of work, 85% of all engineers, over 90% of all architects and draftsmen. Analyzed in terms of goods and services that might have been produced if prosperity had not broken down, "there was, in the five years of depression 1930-34, a loss of $185,000 million. . . . This is stupendous and unparalleled, almost ungraspable in its immensity. . . . There never was economic waste on this gigantic scale." Lewis Corey holds that Fascism is no answer, but middle-class readers, visualizing the grim alternatives before them, are likely to experience despair, implore, like Milton's Satan...