Word: spending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House one afternoon last week, spent two hours parceling out the first billion. Half of it went for highways, roads, streets, grade crossings. PWA got a quarter billion dollars for slum clearance, low-cost housing. Rural Resettlement Administrator Rexford Guy Tugwell received a round $100,000,000 to spend as he pleased. Another $100,000,000 went to Army engineers, half of it for dredging the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Two genuinely newsworthy prizes were drawn from the grab-bag by the Democrats of Maine and the Progressive La Follette Brothers of Wisconsin...
Even after all these things are arranged General Denain's work in Italy will not be finished. On Lake Garda Benito Mussolini operates the finest training school for high-speed flying in the world. His official visit ended. Air Minister Denain will spend several days at this and other Italian training schools to see if there are any new wrinkles to be picked up to teach his own blue-clad cadets...
...teach canaries to sing, trainers spend laborious months playing flutes, violins, water organs, chimes. Last week Milton Metfessel reported to Science that eight canaries born & reared in soundproof cages in a University of Southern California psychology laboratory are now producing all the effects in a trained canary's repertoire: hollow roll, hollow bell, schockel, flutes, water roll, bass roll, glucke, glucke roll, water glucke, deep bubbling water tour, bell roll, bell tour, bell glucke...
...have taken a "whole floor" at the Savoy Hotel, assumed to be out shopping for "his sartorial foible. British underpants of a particular weave costing ?200 per pair," assumed to have "brought from India his special curry cook who takes twelve hours to prepare that dish," assumed to spend "three and a half hours every morning curling his sardonic beard and adjusting his jewel-studded turban...
...would be willing to fall into a trance during the month of October every year for $2,000,000 or become insane every July for $95,000,000. Women wanted $200,000 for an October trance, $4,500,000 for July madness. For $10,000,000 each, men would spend their lives in a Manhattan apartment. Women wanted $62,500,000. To abandon all hope of life after death the men wanted $1,000, the women only $10. Men would get thoroughly intoxicated for $25, women...