Word: shared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...loans-and-grants of which up to 45% may be outright gifts. This month when the Supreme Court upheld the legality of such PWA assistance, the way was cleared for releasing $146,917,803 in approved grants which had been held up for three years, and a good share of the money went to localities in the TVA area...
...almost inspired proposal. As salve to his own people, he suggested that British naval bases on Irish soil be turned over to Eire, that England be allowed to use them and other bases to be built. As salve to England, he offered to pay as Eire's share of the upkeep of these defense works $25,000,000 a year-the amount of the disputed land annuities. Thus, at one stroke two causes of dissension were removed and the two Prime Ministers quietly agreed, turning over to trade experts the detailed task of tearing down the tariff walls...
...losing $24,000,000 in surplus since 1932, Federal Judge Oliver Booth Dickinson cracked: "There is something radically wrong with the Pennsylvania anthracite industry that it can run up ... inordinately high prices of coal to consumers. The tendency has been for management to take far more than its fair share of the receipts...
This fact, plus droughts and increasing mechanization of agriculture, he continued, means that the pinch is now being felt among many farm groups, an example being some 300 sharecropping families in Lee County, Texas who "are literally in danger of starvation as every penny of their share of the cotton crop has been required to pay their debts to the land-lords." Ordinarily, said Secretary Wallace, the landlords would carry the sharecroppers until next summer, but because of low cotton prices the landlords are almost as badly off themselves. "Local agencies, likewise, are utterly unable to provide any kind...
...increasing it 25%. This meant adding only nine men, but this is a large addition in a field where individual orders may run as high as $500,000. Mindful that when M. M. & M. bought Philadelphia's Box, Crane & Hoist Corp. in 1932 such methods boosted its share of the hoist business from 2.2% to 15% within the five years, Sales Manager William P. Bradbury predicted that 1938 would be his company's biggest year. "In periods of retarded buying," he explained, "we have found that more calls must be made in order to maintain the same sales...