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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York City some 1,100,000 children registered and entered school. For them the Board of Education has approved a budget of 130-odd million dollars, $2,000,000 higher than last year despite Mayor John Patrick O'Brien's requests to prune. The Board plans to fill two vacant superintendencies despite his orders not to. ¶ In North Carolina rural youngsters learned they might have to go to school six days a week, the Legislature having raised the State-supported school term (by which every school board gets a minimum grant) from six months to eight...
...provide more arable land for England, Francis Maurice Gustavus Du-Plat-Taylor, dock and reclamation engineer, urged that London's house refuse and sludge from sewage disposal plants be deposited upon marsh and mud lands. London sludge, which now is hauled out to sea, amounts to three million tons yearly. House refuse reaches 1,500,000 tons yearly. Tooth Crystals. X-ray analysis showed J. Thewlis a close analogy between the structure of tooth enamel and the fertilizing mineral apatite. He hopes that further study will show how to prevent tooth decay. Enamel and apatite consist of fibres made...
...days into Fayal. Now came worse. Some say it was the House of Savoy, angered because he dared court Princess Giovanna (today Queen of Bulgaria). Some say it was Italo Balbo, jealous of de Pinedo's acclaim. Some say it was because de Pinedo "forgot" about a half-million-lire fund raised for him by Italo-Americans to buy a new plane. Italo's hero was suddenly, drastically demoted, attached ob- scurely to the embassy in Buenos Aires. There he played polo and hunted. He kept his peace with good grace until this year-the year of Balbo...
...Divine are highly respected by tens of thousands and may I inform you that something like seven million people have come under his influence...
...reprinted every want-ad in his rival's columns, then claimed the largest want-ad section in the city. His reporters got him the scandalous facts on the city's key men, then he got the key men. ... In five years he had cleaned up a million dollars...