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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fiscal year (June 30) it was expected to rise to about $1,400,000,000. Tax receipts and foreign debt payments due June 15, according to Treasury estimates, will cut it back by about $370,000,000, still leaving the total above the billion-dollar mark, a peacetime record. One Government outlay that did not go over the top was that for Drought relief. Of the $67,000,000 appropriated by Congress, some 400,000 individual farmers had received $47,064,319 up to last week. Arkansas led with $9,292,000. The Department of Agriculture appealed to the Department...
...aluminum sphere, half black, half silver, from which flew a. Swiss flag. Up, up?and to the south and west?the balloon CH-113 soared until it was a gleaming globule in the rays of the sun not yet risen. Up above the 42,000-ft. mark reached by the late Balloonist Lieut. Hawthorne Gray, up past Lieut. Apollo Soucek's airplane altitude of 43,166 ft.?the highest that man had ever risen?the CH-113 entered the stratosphere eventually to hover ten miles above the earth...
...basic soundness of our institutions . . . can have any doubt that we possess within ourselves the power to lead the world in trade recovery." These two ideas were incorporated in the Council's resolution. And as the Council adjourned Mr. Farrell made the additional statement that the resolution will mark the Turn, "already evident in many lines." Many an observer, puzzled by Mr. Farrell's change of tone, wondered if his ideas had not been subjected to the blast furnaces of powerful banking interests...
Record, who prepared at Brookline High School led his school team to victory at the Interscholastics in the Stadium in 1928, setting a mark of 14 3-5 seconds for the 120-yard low hurdles...
...headed timbertopper won the low hurdles in 24 seconds, but fell on the tenth barrier in a stride-for-stride race with DeVoe, this year's Eli leader. In the culmination of this rivalry at New Haven last month Record won in 14 2-5 seconds, a world record mark not allowed because of favoring wind, and shortly later fought off Fates to win the low event in 23 1-10 seconds...