Word: purchaseed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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AAA II is supposed to induce farmers to limit crops in return for benefits-soil conservation payments, crop loans, crop insurance, Government purchase of surpluses. If these inducements do not work the Act provides for compulsory controls-marketing quotas (such as are now in force for cotton and tobacco) invoked...
In Paris, the authoritative Beaux-Arts magazine noted Queen Elizabeth's recent purchase of a painting by Wilson Steer and a portrait of George Bernard Shaw by Augustus John. Added the Beaux-Arts: this was the first occasion since before the reign of Charles I (1625-49) that the...
Eighteen friends of the late Mr. Wells are organizing a fund in the College Library to be known as the Edgar Huidekoper Wells Memorial, the income to be applied to the purchase of books. Subscribers to the fund are requested to send contributions to William H. Claflin, Jr., Treasurer of...
Quipped LaGuardia, remembering that only last December Mayor Ellenstein was indicted for conspiracy to defraud his own city in the purchase of land for Newark Airport: "Poor Meyer is so troubled with . . . the pickle he is now in."
Since an Egyptian bronze cat was installed at the St. Louis City Art Museum last month, attendance has increased rapidly. Last week the museum announced that the August total of visitors, 51,323, was the greatest since May 1914. The announcement was edged with rue however, because what the cat...