Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Another method of making Government expenditures seem smaller is by deducting from each year's expenses the recoveries of loans made in previous years. "In 1935 over $180,000,000 of the expenses were written off in this way . . . in 1936 apparently over...
...third method of reducing the apparent size of the Government's ordinary expenditures is by using funds that have been appropriated for relief and recovery. One example: in 1935 the Department of Commerce reported spending only $11,000,000 or 75% less than it did under Hoover. However, $21,600,000 realized from the assets of the Shipping Board were deducted from the Department's expenditures and $11,000,000 additional of the Department's expenses were paid out of relief and recovery funds. Another example: in 1935 the cost of national defense was figured...
...York City's Health Commissioner John Levi Rice, who does more than any other municipal health officer to support the Parran campaign, last week revealed another new method in the U. S. fight against venereal disease. The 827 municipal clinics throughout the U. S. where venereals may receive free or cheap treatment, get only a fraction of the victims. Of the rest, some do not know that they are infected, while the rest shamefacedly sneak to quacks, urologists, and skin specialists. Henceforth the 14,000 doctors of New York City are to function as "shock troops...
...attempt at the Mt. Washington observatory to translate mountain observations into data for ordinary "free" upper air at the same height above flat ground. The weather forecaster needs a continuous record, day and night, in all kinds of weather, of conditions in the upper air. At present the only method of obtaining these data is by expensive airplane fights or balloon ascents at intervals of hours or days; these do not give a continuous record and are not practicable in bad weather when records are most needed. They are well on their way towards ironing out the peculiar effects...
Twelve of the forty-eight best American pictures of the year are now on view in Robinson Hall. The pictures are being exhibited through the first display at Harvard sponsored by the Living American Art Inc. This group has been organized to provide a new method of distributing pictures, so that most people in the country may have the opportunity of seeing the best representative paintings by living American artists...