Word: poore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Social Security. In five days the Senate polished up, passed and sent to conference one of the great omnibus measures of the session-the Social Security Bill. Besides appropriating a few (50) millions for poor mothers, crippled children, the blind and public health work, it combined four major schemes, meaning much to many millions of citizens...
...states which gives him an old age pension, instead of sending him to the poorhouse, will receive from the Federal Government a second pension, the same size as that given by the state, but not more than $15 a month. By a special Senate amendment poor oldsters who live in the 15 states which have no old age pension laws will get a Federal pension up to $15 a month for two years. By that time the Government expects every state in the Union to have caught up with the old age pension procession...
...British-made, and the Hai Shen, German-made, were first class war boats. The Hai Chi, refitted in 1927, is theoretically still the heaviest (4,300 tons), fastest (24 knots) and best armed (two 8-in. guns) of all the twelve cruisers of the Chinese Navy. But its poor old sister wallows along at less than ten knots. The two ships' toughest problem for decades has been to find a paymaster. Half the time they are in pawn for coal bills, their crews unpaid, a gun or two sold for scrap. In desperation ever since 1917, the commanders have...
...smokes countless cigarets, prods his sons for circulation and more circulation. Two "G. C." maxims: ''Take the subscriptions and let the street sales go." . . . ''A mediocre paper with a good circulation department can put out of business the best newspaper in the land with a poor circulation department...
...other foods, a place must be provided in the household budget for definite quantities of milk and milk products. Even with today's high prevailing prices, milk is still a bargain in food values. ... It is difficult to estimate how many persons in this country are so poor they are unable to purchase the food necessary to keep them in health. . . . But something like 20,000,000 American people are living near or below the threshold of nutritive safety. This condition, if continued, will surely affect the health of the race. The income of these people must be raised...