Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wealthiest States in the Union is sound, solid, barn-bursting Ohio. But ever since 1935, when the Federal Government turned relief back to the States, Ohio's relief program has suffered crisis after crisis: one rolls into the next like waves on the beach...
...year, the Council plans to donate a large sum to the Red Cross, whose needs this year are most urgent, with two wars and the resulting refugee problems present in Europe. In Cambridge about 7,000 people contributed, helping to raise part of the $400,000 planned for Polish relief. All this is collected in addition to a sizeable sum which is reserved for local relief...
...civil and not military costs. These were huge enough-79,000,000,000 francs ($1,746,000,000), or an increase of $500,000,000 over last year's ordinary expenses. A few items which might possibly be called military costs were included: $309,400,000 for the relief of families of mobilized men, $55,250,000 for refugees from the war zones, $143,650,000 for interest payments on money yet to be borrowed...
...have found worthy of her love; this is not the marriage of The Netherlands to Germany." She wrote to Herr Hitler, and the passports were returned. On the Fuhrer's birthdays she has always tactfully sent congratulations, and fortnight ago, when he escaped assassination, she wired her "relief" at his good fortune...
Readers of FORTUNE have long admired its lively, accurate maps, which by skillful use of color and three-dimensional perspective make a country jut up from the printed page as though it were in relief. Wiry, kinetic Richard Edes Harrison, their maker, drifted into cartography via scientific and architectural training and seven years of industrial design. Last week an exhibition of his maps went on display at Yale University...