Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course, the announcement amounts to a humiliating surrender for the President and the Administration and would never have been made except to coyer retreat; but it is artfully devised to mislead the country and to deny the taxpayer the full benefit of relief to which he is entitled...
...Minneapolis, symphonophiles drew a mighty breath of relief. They had received some weeks ago a statement from the Symphony management to the effect that unless they gave better support, in fact unless they took all the subscriptions to the 16 Friday evening concerts, their fare would be cut in half and they would get no Sunday afternoon programs. They bestirred themselves. At the opening concert every seat was taken and a hundred extra ones tucked here and there for those who would not be turned away. They relaxed then those symphonophiles, gave rapt attention to Rimsky-Korsakoff, Thomas, Mozart, Pierne...
...Relief. Eugene Meyer Jr., Chairman of President Coolidge's farm relief commission and Albert Calvin Williams, Chairman of the Federal farm loan board, began the President's relief plans by starting the formation of nine cotton finance corporations to serve twelve Southern states. These corporations will have a total capitalization of $16,000,000, against which the Government will loan $160,000,000 toward the storage of cotton. Farmers may borrow nine cents a pound on properly stored staple. Next year's acreage must be curtailed and diversified with crops; other than cotton...
...when analogous overproduction occurred, the relief cry was "Buy a Bale." The present cry is "Wear Cotton." Last week the only woman judge in the South, Virginia Henry Mayfield, at Birmingham, put out a reason: The adoption by southern women of more cotton clothing, instead of sensuous silk, would reduce work in the divorce courts; the return to past styles would give contentment in the home and aid to the farmer...
...Southwest and Mexico are in progress. U. S. Rubber Co. has its own plantations in Oceana. Firestone Rubber Co. is trying to develop Liberian jungles. It has made little progress there so far. In their predicament U. S. rub ber manufacturers have five measures towards gaining some relief: 1) reclaimed rubber, 2) synthetic rubber, 3) factice, 4) mineral rubber, and 5) more economical meth ods of manufacture. Improved Manufacture. Last week a company was formed, the American Anode Inc., to exploit a new process of manufacture, which may have momentous effects on the entire industry. This process is no less...