Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This turnabout in the President's philosophy was crystallized in the new budget in a proposed method of bookkeeping. Government expenditures have for several years been in effect divided into two types -ordinary (Government operating expenses, national defense, interest on public debt, etc.) and extraordinary (relief, highways, Civilian Conservation Corps, flood control, public buildings, etc.). The former he would have remain fairly constant from year to year; but extraordinary expenses would chart (in reverse) the country's ups and downs, and he suggested that these expenses be treated as national investments...
...Relief. Following the budget message the President asked Congress for an $875,000,000 deficiency appropriation to carry WPA through next June. This will bring fiscal 1939's WPA cost to about $2,300,000,000. For fiscal 1940 the budget calls for $2,019,000,000 to be allocated between WPA and other relief agencies...
...confronted by estimates put in by department heads calling for appropriations totalling $96,600,000. It was then that Businessman Heil came face to face with the political fact that some of the biggest items of government cost nowadays are the hardest to reduce. For example: pensions, relief and welfare, highways, public education...
None of them, however, affords certain relief, and the cause & cure of seasickness remain one of medicine's minor mysteries...
...ship's surgeon, who was modeling an oxygen mask for seasickness, invented by Dr. Walter Meredith Boothby of the Mayo Clinic. Dr. Boothby tried the new invention on four seasick passengers during the Lady Nelson's 30-day trip to British Guiana and back. It gave complete relief to three, partial relief to a fourth...