Word: spending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these 125 Negro graduates are to get their hospital experience is a problem which the Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges last week called to the profession's attention by its reports of the Association's last meeting. A doctor must spend one or more years at a hospital before he can be reckoned reliable for general practice. But there are only seven good Negro hospitals in the country and they can accommodate only 50 internes yearly. Practically none of the rest can get posts in general hospitals. So they must get work in dubious private...
Unmoved, parsimonious President Irigoyen continued not to spend. He announced that he would authorize no payments until all the contracts let by the previous administration were reexamined. In vain irate creditor firms throughout the world protested that their contracts had been authorized by the Argentine Congress and are binding, even mandatory upon the Treasury. The essential fact is simply that President Hipolito Irigoyen is the absolute and irresponsible "political boss" of Argentina. When he chooses to pay there will be no difficulty, for receipts and surplus in the Argentine Treasury are adequate, even above normal. Friends of Argentina hoped that...
...most rigid inspection. Even motorists, driving through the infested districts, are stopped at county borders while busy officials squirt insecticide over cars, coats, baggage. Even personal luggage is opened and the contents liberally squirted. To a protesting motorist, one official remarked: "Well, lady, we have $4,000,000 to spend and we got to do something with...
...been about $3,000,000. The 1928 income (with eight months of Trumbull) was $4,642,000. The first six months of 1929 showed net profit of $6,140,435, almost four times the net for the first half of 1928. Able President McCleary is planning to spend $10,000,000 in plant improvements, has on hand unfilled orders for 356,845 tons of steel...
...Last week Sir Douglas announced the personnel (27 men) of this expedition, which sails next month on the Discovery, oldtime ship of the late Explorer Robert Falcon Scott. The Mawson purpose: to spend two years mapping Antarctica. †Navigazione General Italiana. These motor-ships, each propelled by two diesel motors, can run six months without stopping. ** In the Mexican fiasco over General Pancho Villa...