Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...army. As Senator from New York, he could well visualize what might happen to the topless towers of Manhattan if enemy bombers ever laid eggs among them. Inland Senators were apathetic, but other coast Senators agreed. He knew that the nine antiaircraft regiments of the regular army have only seven or eight guns apiece (twelve is par), that few of the ten antiaircraft regiments of the National Guard have anything more effective than machine guns. Largely due to Senator Copeland, $13,000,000 went into the army's 1938 appropriation specifically earmarked for antiaircraft, and the army was authorized...
...seven days beginning Saturday, September 10. All times are EDST. All programs subject to change without notice...
...building is faring was last week indicated by the National Industrial Conference Board in a nine-page survey with charts. Its big fact: In the first seven months of 1938 industrial production was lower than for any corresponding period since 1933 but construction exceeded the corresponding figure in every recent year except 1937. And in the second quarter of this year the building lag behind 1937 was cut from...
...store taxes.* Particularly stiff are Florida's; only Idaho has comparably severe rates. Florida's Cotton Mather, less fanatical but no less shrewd than his ancestor, worked out a system which he thought had the tax witch lashed to the stake: he organized his 15 stores under seven loosely knit corporations, no one of which held more than three stores. Under Florida's system of graduation, paying taxes on several small chains is small potatoes to paying on one large chain. The slipknot in his lashing was that he proudly advertised the "advantages of mass buying...
...well as cranky comments about the Jews, weary descriptions of Theodore Roosevelt's energy (Adams felt tired just thinking about Roosevelt), and descriptions of Adams' difficulties in learning to drive his Mercedes at the age of 66. It ends on a note of unqualified despair. Adams died seven months before the Armistice. By means of an elaborate mathematical formula, he had calculated that society would collapse in 1917. By 1912 he thought he had given society five years too many. But by 1917 he was sure his first figures had been right...