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...those economy-minded legislators are left hanging on the end of a long and lonesome limb. The new budget contains the smallest requests for ordinary peacetime funds of any one since Herbert Hoover was peeping cautiously around corners. Of the 109 billions asked by the President, only four and a half are to go for regular expenses; every other nickel will go into the maw of Mars. Except for statutory outlays, such as debt retirement and social security payments, every civil agency except agriculture has been cut to the bone. The case of agriculture is simply explained, for Congress itself...
When the U.S. had an area slightly larger than that of Mexico today, a population equal to that of Denmark, the world's smallest army, the least impressive fleet that sailed the seven seas and the longest defenseless coastline in the civilized world, John Adams, who was considered conservative, rushed to Europe to assert the superiority of American institutions he had helped create. When Hitler wanted to impress the Germans he told them their victories would last 1,000 years. Adams was less cautious. He told Europe the institu-[tions America had already built before 1800 "will not wholly...
...Nome. Jimmy Doolittle was born at Alameda, Calif. 45 years ago, but he first found his fighting fists in Nome, Alaska, where his father hunted unsuccessfully for Yukon gold. Now a solid five feet, five inches of lean and tangy meat, Jimmy was then the smallest boy in school, and so he had to try to lick all the other boys. At high school (Los Angeles Manual Arts) and college (U. of California's School of Mines) he was successively bantam, welter and middleweight boxing champion...
Broken down House by House, figures show that Adams has maintained a consistent lead with a total sales of $1071.05, leaving Leverett in second with $933.82. Winthrop holds third place $31.08 behind Leverett. Smallest total is Dunster with $459.60, while Eliot has the smallest contribution per capita, 6.9 cents per week...
...Coins ranging from a hundred reis (smallest unit recently made, worth half a U.S. cent) to five milreis (25?) come in 25 different sizes. At times some have been worth more as metal than as money; always they have caused innumerable difficulties with such things as pay telephones, slot machines...