Word: lot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...talks on a favorite theme: let the South make itself self-sufficient. At Auburn, he recalled how when he first lived in Warm Springs, he found that all the milk, apples, meat, shoes for sale there came from the North. To make the South selfsupporting, he said, "means a lot of work. It means, incidentally, getting the South out of hock to the North. I don't believe that the South is so broke that it cannot put its own capital into the establishment of its own enterprises...
...lot of unemployed folks out here, Elliott, who've got to be taken care of, and we don't see how Garner's economy program is going to mean food and jobs for them. If 'Cactus Jack' and all his bellowing calves in Congress would really get behind the old man and quit sniping at him and upsetting the country and business, we'd be able to put these jobless to work all the sooner...
Aside from the bleeding, dying and bereavement, one result of war is that while it impoverishes most people, some people make money out of it and a few make a lot of money. Last week no less than 50 U. S. Senators, enough to pass any bill, revived the idea of "taxing the profits...
...years U. S. airlines have known a lot about passenger discomfort at not unusual flying altitudes between 10,000 and 15,000 feet. But they have done little to allay it beyond providing 105-lb. registered nurses, and handy cardboard containers...
...Copenhagen the Kroghs have their living quarters in the same building with their laboratory, which makes it convenient to get to dinner from work and back to work after dinner. He drinks a lot of Carlsberg beer, more from a sense of duty than for any other reason, for the profits of this famed Copenhagen brewery go solely to support institutions of science and art. He could get no Carlsberg beer in Swarthmore last week, because in that pious Quaker town no beer, however philanthropic, is sold...