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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York's natty, fun-loving Mayor Walker broached the beer parade idea. He set May 14 and predicted that a million marchers would turn out in his town. He urged the mayors of all other U. S. cities to hold similar demonstrations. The American Federation of Labor and the American Legion promised support. Mayor Walker admitted getting his idea from Mrs. William Randolph Hearst...
Statisticians then informed the Conference that "between 20 million and 25 million workers are unemployed in the world today and they have between 40 million and 50 million dependents...
...rubber investments it was adhering to its policy of buying only into basic industries. Founder Eaton is believed to have had some ultimate plan of co-operation among the rubber rivals similar to that started last week. In its last annual report Continental valued its rubber investments at five million dollars. ; The largest investment was in Firestone; other holdings were in Goodyear, Goodrich and U. S. Rubber...
...Some 400 million years ago a fish dug its head into the mud, began to breathe with lungs, explains Joel. Next natural development would have been for it to be able to crawl out on land, but the lungfish never got that far. The only benefit it got from its lungs was the ability to live through periods of drought. Encysted in sun-baked mud it could live on air and its own tissues for months, even for years. From the papyrus roots of Lake Victoria Joel two years prior had collected specimens of the fish, called Kamongo...
...architects predict a 21% increase in Protestant church building this year over last year. It is estimated that Protestants in the U. S. give from 500 to 600 million dollars a year to their churches for strictly ecclesiastical causes (excluding Prohibition, community charities, unemployment relief). Per capita gifts tabulated in 25 denominations averaged $22.62 in 1931; $22.04 in 1929; $23.38 in 1930. According to an estimate of Wayne Griffith Miller of the Christian Herald, not a single church with "sufficient excuse for existence" has been dispossessed of its property. Eight Protestant denominations show a total indebtedness...