Word: months
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lastest form, the Townsend Plan proposes Federal pensions, up to a maximum of $200 per month, for all persons 60 or over proving indigence, the amount paid to vary monthly by prorating among all certified pensioners the proceeds 20% :"transaction tax" (levied on every exchange of money for goods services.) The pensioners would be required to spend all their pension money each month before receiving more. Last week Dr. Townsend was in Hawaii studying a "gross income" tax of similar design instituted there in 1935 to increase the velocity of exchange...
...Yangtze on transport ships to aid the 180,000 already engaged in the campaign. Most notable temporary Japanese success last week was the cutting of the Hankow-Peking Railway, about 100 miles north of Hankow, by Japanese cavalry which had completed a 200-mile cross-country drive. Last month the Japanese command boasted that Hankow would be taken by October 1. Last week Chinese resistance had so stiffened that few neutral observers believed the city could be occupied before next month, some believed the Chinese could hold out until the year...
...Lloyd Burgess Sharp, executive director of LIFE Camps, has staged a revival of the frontier for city boys and girls. To the three LIFE Camps* (maintained for underprivileged children by contributions from TIME Inc. and readers of its publications), he takes some 250 youngsters each year for a month's free vacation. In groups of six or seven, each group accompanied by two counselors, the children put up tents in the woods, cook their own meals, learn to take care of themselves in Nature's habitat...
...their $100-to-$120-a-month jobs, applicants for the 300 stewardess posts had to be pretty, petite, single, graduate nurses, 21 to 26 years old, 100 to 120 lbs. Many of them found husbands right after they found jobs; few married pilots...
...Tremendous hit on Broadway last season was Paul Osborn's On Borrowed Time, now in its ninth and final month there...