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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...billion, six hundred million gallons of 199 proof anhydrous alcohol would be needed to make a 10% blend with the approximate 16,000,000,000 annual U. S. gasoline consumption. That this would relieve the problem of the agricultural surplus is indicated by the fact that to make it would consume all of the wheat raised in the U. S.; or on the other hand all of the oats, barley, rye and white potatoes; or on the other hand from one-third to one-half of the corn...
...borrowed their reason for having a fair this year. It was to represent, approximately, "four centuries of progress" dating from 1542 when Portuguese Navigator Cabrillo's ships entered the harbor. More realistic were San Diego's two main inducements to hold a fair: 1) to bait ten million tourists into the city before Armistice Day; 2) to put to some practical use 1,400-acre Balboa Park and the many permanent neo-Hispanic buildings by the late Bertram Goodhue left over from the Panama-California Exposition of 1915-16.* Accordingly, the citizenry passed the hat to collect...
...cannot in honesty assert to you that to increase that deficit this year by two billion two hundred million dollars will in itself bankrupt the United States. Today the credit of the United States is safe. But it cannot ultimately be safe if we engage in a policy of yielding to each & all of the groups that are able to enforce upon the Congress claims for special consideration. We can afford all that we need; but we cannot afford all that we want. I do not need to be a prophet to assert that if these certificates...
...lumber business. Their kingdom, sprawled from Wisconsin to Washington, is a broad 3,000 square miles of the country's best timberland supporting 94 Weyerhaeuser-operated or affiliated corporations which gross $20,000,000 a year. The fact that the Weyerhaeusers and associates have lost up to five million dollars a year for the past decade has not worried them overmuch...
...Connell, who did not bother to mention Father Coughlin by name, is the radio priest's highest-placed Catholic critic. So the Massachusetts Catholic Order of Foresters was well aware what the "dean of the U.S. hierarchy" meant when he addressed their meeting: "There are a million ways in which any citizen of America can voice his views, but it ought to be done with self-respecting honesty and, above all, the proper respect due to superiors. . . . Oftentimes the faith of our good people is tested by those shouters and shriekers who would be much better occupied by bringing...