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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soundly managed, the American Farm School has even in depression times paid 70% to 75% of its operating expenses out of operating income from the sale of farm products, live stock, water supply, and electric power, plus students' fees. The remainder comes about half from income of invested funds and the rest in the form of annual contributions from friends in Greece and America. Cholera carried off $1,500 worth of pigs last year, and the unprecedented drought this spring probably means the loss of the year's crop. But the School survives such calamities...
...left in the bottom of its $300,000,000 jobless relief fund last week when President Roosevelt signed a bill amply replenishing Federal resources to help the nation's destitute millions. Authorized was the expenditure of another $500,000,000, to be raised by R. F. C. through sale of its obligations to the Treasury and turned over to an Administrator of Relief...
Continued illegal is the manufacture or sale of strong beer, ale or porter...
Drugstores, under Prohibition, have been legally selling a million gallons of medicinal whiskey a year. U. S. bootleggers sell, according to a casual estimate, at least 100 million gallons. The new Federal regulations will increase drugstore sales to between three and four million gallons, specialists judge. But there are only twelve million gallons of governmentally bonded whiskey in distillery warehouses. Whiskey must be stored at least four years before sale under government seal. Only four and one-half million gallons, little over a year's estimated demand, of such bonded drinks legally exist. But that supply...
...rumored that grass skirts will be seen in great numbers, while the members and guests favor the attire of Barnacle Bill, the sailor. Tickets will be on sale at the tower for those who have not purchased them before hand. The price for couples will be reduced one-half at 1 o'clock, according to the committee that consists of D. S. Carmichael '35, J. deB. Bertolet '35, R. W. Skinner '34, and J. R. Fetcher...