Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oklahoma's Professor Frank Armon Melton noted in an airplane mosaic map of Horry County, S. C. some strangely regular furrows in the terrain. Later with Professor William Schriever (University of Oklahoma) he examined the ground directly, learned that the people of the neighborhood called the vast grooves "bays." The two scholars found more than 1,500 large "bays" (some 2 mi. long) between Norfolk, Va. and the Savannah River, decided that 100,000 to 1,000,000 years ago a comet must have grazed the earth. The comet head composed of hundreds of separate meteors, must have been...
...Flynn reveals, the greater part of the money was loaned to large banks. Shortly after Mr. Dawes had resigned as the head of the R.F.C. ninety millions were loaned to his bank in Chicago. Mr. Hoover immediately defended this action; it would help smaller banks. Eighty percent of the neighborhood banks in the whole city of Chicago already have closed...
...slums. She is apt to be the third in a family of five children, one of whom died fairly young. Her father is engaged in some form of manufacturing or mechanical industry and her mother does not work outside the home. The family's income is in the neighborhood of $50 a week, on which they live comfortably in a six-room house or apartment, and the girl spends her entire life at home. She starts to school at the usual age and leaves shortly before her sixteenth birthday. Within a few months she goes to work...
...Estimates by brewing interests place the probable consumption at 40,000,000 bbl. within the next two years. On this basis the revenue would be in the neighborhood of $200,000,000 annually. . . . The committee was informed that brewers could produce a barrel of beer and deliver it for $6.26, exclusive of taxes. . . . The legalization of beer will give employment to 75,000 men in breweries, about 225,000 in its retail distribution...
...school students of the country will be allowed to exercise their critical faculties in this manner. The teachers hope for the development of "desirable ideals and attitudes" by this step. "Shall we consider in our schools," they ask, "the ethical aspects of character conflicts depicted on the screens of neighborhood theatres, or shall we confine ourselves to the traditional classics of the printed page...