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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan it was estimated last week that 1,000 million dollars, or about one-tenth of the world's entire current rearmament bill, is being spent for fighting aircraft alone. Vice President Howard S. Welch of Bendix Aviation Corp. figured that 62,349 serviceable planes exist today, about one-third of them war planes, and that in 1937 an additional 28,500 planes are being built, four-fifths of them war planes...
...Valencia, where for months the ex-Madrid Government of Premier Largo Caballero has been sitting and which Reds fear will be the next target for White guns, 1,800 workmen last week sweated to complete 46 concrete bomb-shelters designed to protect a million persons and "to make Valencia one of the safest cities in Europe...
Northern Methodism's name for its drive is the Million Unit Fellowship Movement. A "unit" is $1 a month subscribed to the Church. Methodists may make themselves responsible for the monthly $1 or club together on a unit. The Church expects its 5,000,000 members thus to contribute $1,000,000 a month for the next year. Since its launching last November the Movement has been directed by retired Bishop Frederick Thomas Keeney of Chicago. Methodist income for world service has dipped from $8,000,000 in 1925 to $3,000,000 in 1935 but busy Bishop Keeney...
...Three million Methodists were supposed to be gathered at Fellowship dinners under the auspices of 20,000 city and village churches. Perhaps 1,500,000 or more were. To them went the voices of Dr. Jones, about to return to his labors as a missionary in India, who urged his favorite idea: that all the sects form a Church of Christ, with each sect represented as a "Branch." Mr. Rockefeller, who would belong to the Baptist Branch but who has publicly announced he will give no more millions to sectarian enterprises (TIME, Nov. 25, 1935), voiced his agreement with...
This money, the Stuart Wyeth bequest, headed a group of sums received totaling to one and a half million dollars. Other sources were: the Carnegie Corporation of New York, $350,000; the Markel Foundation of New York, $25,000; Mrs. George H. Monks, $25,000; the Carr Fund, $113,400; and gifts...