Word: months
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...semi-pros, baseball is not a full-time job. The Bona Allens, like 50% of their bottom-crust classmen, are for the most part factory workers (at about $125 a month) for the company (Bona Allen leather company) that owns the team. The other half of the semi-pro class play on teams owned by small-town merchant groups or individuals with $5,000 and a yen to own a ball club. They include many a onetime major-leaguer on his way out, many a schoolboy on his way up. But the backbone of the semi-pros are barbers, butchers...
Director Cahill and advisers were untroubled by this expected criticism, because in the first month of the project they had laid down a long-range program. The Project's personnel, they decided, was to be drawn from relief rolls in four classes: professional, skilled, intermediate and unskilled. As by their works they became better known, skilled men were employed in research, teaching and craft work, intermediates formed an apprentice class for training, and unskilled personnel came in handy in various ways...
...artists in 44 States and have authorized a total expenditure of $3,757,000 in 1936, $5,838,000 in 1937 and $4,550,000 in 1938. Artists' wages, determined by the cost of living in each locality and by union rates, have varied from $103 per month in Manhattan to $39 per month in Alabama, Mississippi and Florida. Top wage is now $98 per month, bottom wage, $45. By selecting plain, large quarters for rental, by mimeographing catalogues, manuals and books instead of printing them, and in general by going easy on creature comforts, the Project...
...sale. Plan is to start each school by getting a patriot to give a piece of land yielding at least $80 a year. The rest of the cost is to be met by village festivals, Government grants. Teachers will live in the schoolhouses, be paid $8 a month, sign up for a minimum of 25 years' service. A problem: enlisting women teachers. India has virtually none. Reason: it is unsafe for a woman to live alone...
...India Nationalist Congress last week prepared to tackle with a new plan, the Wardha Education Scheme (named after Gandhi's headquarters). Its goal: a school in every village. These schools (vidya mandirs: "temples of learning") will be opened in 166 villages of one province next month and the Central Advisory Board of Education is planning to establish them soon throughout India. Championing the plan is the board's bespectacled, English-educated president, Bal Gangadhar Kher, Premier of Bombay, father of five children and himself a one-time schoolteacher...