Word: spending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...apply them to practical use for the future. The next war will be totally unlike the last. Small field guns, toy cannons and pistol markmanship will be utterly useless, and the teaching of these subjects occupies more time in a valuable college curriculum than the average student ought to spend...
...probably be between $1,500,000 and $2,000,000. It will not be surprising if the Republican expenditures for the entire campaign run over $7,500,000, if Democratic expenditures run about $5,000,000. Many a voter may feel that this is a lot of money to spend on a campaign. It is spent, however, to pick a President who will last four years, a Congress which will last two years. But the total cost of the campaign for both major parties would not run the U. S. Government today for 24 hours...
...disrupted a disarmament conference. A U. S. journalist (Otto Hulett), who has been "selling his soul'' by writing jingoistic trash for a U. S. jingo newspaper tycoon, decides to stop it even if it costs him his job, reads the riot act to Zacharey, loudly swears to spend the rest of his life exposing...
Five Fellowships are available this year for Students who would like to spend the year 1937-38 travelling or in either Cambridge or Oxford Universities...
...season is over. Threshers may be Negroes, Mexicans, half-breed Indians or poor whites, and the typical crew, made up of a family and friends, cruises from job to job in dilapidated automobiles. They camp in the groves they are picking, put in a ten or eleven hour day, spend evenings singing and dancing, like a siesta at noon, a fiesta every weekend. Threshers, who climb and shake the trees, make from $4 to $6 a day. Gatherers, who pick the nuts up from the ground or off canvas spread under the tree, earn between...