Word: spending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prove that he or she had lived an upright life. That would discourage crime among the young. The pensioners must promise to work no more at any gainful or productive activity. That would open jobs for at least 8,000,000 young people.* The pensioners must be required to spend their doles within 30 days, in the U. S. That would put nearly $2,000,000,000 into circulation every month. Trade would boom, wages soar. Each $200 would keep one worker busy for a month supplying its demands. It would be Utopia. Every young person would be busy...
Virginia Van Wie started to play golf at 11, to help cure an injury to her back incurred playing football with a team of small boys. Coached by D. E. Miner, golf professional at De Land, Fla., where the Van Wies spend their winters, she entered her first tournament at 16, beat Glenna Collett in the Florida East Coast Championship the next year. With Glenna, Maureen and Helen Hicks, whom she beat in the final of the National last year, Virginia ("Gino") Van Wie, now 25, was a member of the group of four women golfers who shared almost...
...Steelman Girdler smack up against the Securities Act, and last week he paid his respect to that and other aspects of the New Deal. "The New Deal may not be all right, but certainly it is not all wrong," he remarked diplomatically. But: "Today no business is willing to spend a dollar except for immediate requirements. Those of us in the steel business cannot blame our customers, for we feel the same way ourselves." His reasons: 1) fear for the profit system, 2) the Securities Act, 3) labor unrest, and 4) "I want to know what the Government is going...
Responding to increased demand for the inclusion of foreign study in the undergraduate curriculum, several eastern universities adopted a few years ago the so-called New Jersey plan, which allows a group of selected students to spend the Junior year at some accepted European university and return as fully accredited Seniors the following year. Although admittedly experimental at the outset, the success of this plan has been so marked that it has been adopted as a permanent feature at such leading universities as Cornell, Smith, and Wellesley, to name only a few. The advantages of this system are so patent...
...would be no future. Hugo tried to still his despair with drink and women. Meanwhile his wife had taken a lover. To make Hugo notice, she finally had to tell him; they had a fervid reconciliation, a second honeymoon. Feeling calmer, Hugo then closed up his business, prepared to spend the rest of his life in poverty, studying mathematics. Thunderstruck, his wife left him for good. Hugo, sure of himself at last, went off to find his old friend...