Word: public
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Aids and subsidies-13? ($511,193,070, covering expenditures made in behalf of public health, education, Indians, farm relief, commercial aviation, merchant marine, trade and industry, public buildings...
Motor horns honked, grey-green soldiers snapped to present arms, and a fleet of eight cars, preceded and followed by bicycle policemen, swept through the streets. To the disappointment of the crowds, the royal procession was quite as informal as the usual public appearances of Herbert Hoover...
...went to Mexico last week from Zapata County, Texas. Through 143 miles of spandy new 12¾ inch pipe it hissed across the border to feed iron and steel furnaces at Monterrey, "The Pittsburgh of Mexico." Pioneer in international public utility, United Gas Co. of Texas, already has contracts calling for natural gas exports of 18 million cubic feet daily through their new pipe. No niggards, they made expensive gas whoopee in Monterrey one night last week, lit a mighty "Inaugural Beacon" which spurted up house high from the Public Square...
...publishing house: Radio Music Corp., capitalized at $6,600,000. NBC owns one-third of the capital stock. RKO Productions, Inc. therefore, like every other important cinema company, will have its own music publishers. And Radio Corp. will now be financially interested in practically every phase of public entertainment...
Whirlpool, in which handsome Edward Leiter represented a small town pastor's struggle against sex, capital and gossip, closed after three performances. It was earnest and trite. Most of its potential public were busy with Christmas shopping...