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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deal's legal lazaretto by two smart Washington correspondents, Felix Belair Jr. of the New York Times and James Russell Wiggins of the St. Paul Pioneer Press. Patched by Congress with amendments, it enabled Secretary of Agriculture Wallace to deliver the checks the Farmers wanted-a maximum $400,000,000 worth annually. Whether it has conserved $400,000,000 worth of U. S. soil annually has been beside the political point. But one thing the Soil Conservation Act has not been: an effective tool for crop control...
Appointments will be for not less than nine nor more than 12 months. The maximum stipend is generally $1,000, although $1,800 is occasionally granted to students for foreign study. Programs caling for work abroad, however must be supported "by a clear demonstration that adequate field experience cannot be obtained in this country...
Down here in Birmingham I pay a maximum of 6½? which scales down as low as 1½?. Last month's average rate was 2.78?. That is not a TVA rate either, but one supplied by the Birmingham Electric Co., which distributes current it buys from the Alabama Power Co. at the city limits...
Although to accommodate Promoter Jacobs the New York State Athletic Commission waived its 40-round maximum rule and 32,000 boxing fans proved willing to sit on wooden seats for four-and-a-half hours, the perverse indifference of the U. S. sporting public to non-heavyweight boxing encounters kept the gross gate receipts down to a disappointing $232,600. Since Promoter Jacobs had contracted to pay his eight fighters some $190,000 and 10% of the profits went to charity, most striking feature of the second carnival of champions was that it was the first big Jacobs event which...
...generator-equipped Martin EckO with electric refrigeration, ice cubes, shower, hot and cold running water. Refinements in some 1937 trailers include: chromium-plated bath tubs; porcelain vapor stoves; writing desks; radios; roomy wardrobes; fireplaces. But a trailer is still a trailer, confined by restrictions of various states to a maximum length of about 22 ft., width and height around 7 ft. A "two-room cottage" and a "five-room efficiency" trailer are both bound to be within these measurements. At night the rooms are used for sleeping, by day become dinettes, living rooms, etc. At slight additional expense awnings...