Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Today for the first time in seven years the banker, the storekeeper, the small factory owner, the industrialist, can all sit back and enjoy the company of their own ledgers. They are in the black and that is where we want them to be; that is where our policies aim that they shall be; that is where we intend them to be in the days to come...
During the year, two honorary staff members and seven active Smithsonian workers died. Mrs. Rachel Turner, charwoman, was retired...
Despite small appropriations, the Smithsonian was enabled by generous outside help, WPA allotments and grants from its own income to send out 20 expeditions, up seven from the preceding year. Some of these trips were very economical. To collect butterflies in Virginia, for example, a scientist requires little besides railroad fare and a net. One or two scientists collected material from the yachts of wealthy kudos-loving sportsmen. Dr. Frank H. H. Roberts Jr. revisited the Folsom deposits, oldest known site of human culture in the U. S. (about 20,000 years old). In Colorado he found...
...Last week in New York City occurred the first death from diphtheria in seven weeks...
Died. Ras Dedjazmatch Nassibu, 42, doughty Ethiopian General who for seven months fought Italy's invading General Rodolfo Graziani (TIME, April 27 et ante); of tuberculosis brought on by inhaling Italian poison gas; in Davos-Platz, Switzerland...