Word: relief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Twenty-two delegates from the North Central States' Agricultural Conference, meeting in Washington, called on the President and were told that he hoped effective farm relief legislation would soon be passed by Congress...
...telephones installed. This figure mounts to 16,720,000 when counting the installations of independent companies that connect with the Bell service. Use of automatic telephones increased 50% during 1925, from 969,000 in 1924 to 1,496,000. The automatic seems the only relief for telephone congestion in the great cities. Subscribers dial their wanted numbers. Automatically connection is made, if the called number is also an automatic. Otherwise the caller dials for a "manual" operator who plugs in on her switchboard. Changing over from "manual" to automatic service involves millions of intricacies, intricacies whch the Bell field forces...
...handling beggary has been evolved. Books of tickets, each worth five or ten pfennigs, are available to generous citizens at the City Hall. Upon being accosted, instead of handing the ragged one money, so often misgiven to impostors, the benefactor tears out tickets, directs the mendicant to a relief bureau, with assurance that his case will be looked up and aided by food, clothing and even employment within 24 hours of his applying. The genuinely destitute are thus succored. Charlatans tear up the tickets in disgust, soon quit their game...
...accommodate, with facilities and equipment equal to the best in the country. Yale's collection of over 1,500,000 volumes, now in the Chittenden Library and Linsly Hall or else scattered about in either the attics or basements of seven nearby buildings. The new library will give a relief which has been needed for many years, the collection having grown from 71,000 books in 1864 to 1,500,000 today...
...will appreciate the relief it will be to me, as I start out to visit the leading cities of the United States and the capitals of our dominion, to know that the question of financial gain from business developments has entirely passed out of my life...