Word: spending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present controversy over Hemenway Gymnasium emphasizes a situation in the athletic program which has existed here for some time. Concentrators in the sciences like chemistry, biology or physics, students doing part-time work, and members of the Graduate Schools who spend their afternoons in study, find that they must either forego exercise entirely, or disrupt their daily schedule in order to get some needed physical relaxation. Such a situation occurs because the H.A.A. limits the hours at which the gym is available and, during available hours, facilities are often monopolized by varsity squads...
...year's Navy budget if work was to go ahead on six new battleships. Besides expanding the fleet and the ground forces, air forces must be geared up by mass production of planes, as they are doing abroad (see p. 18). And private utilities must be stimulated to spend $1,000,000,000 if the U. S. is to have adequate wartime power resources. Observers took all this as a tip: watch for billion-dollar Army & Navy items in the next budget...
...values it sustains. Successfully opposing such plans have been the real-estate and business interests entrenched inside the "Loop." But last week a plan that contained no threat to the "Loop" was on its way to fulfillment. Signed by President Roosevelt was a PWA allotment of 18 million lend-spend dollars, representing 45% of the cost of a $40,000,000 7.6-mile subway system which Chicago must start building before January 1, and must have substantially completed by June 30, 1940. To be tunneled at a depth of 35 feet through the stratum of blue clay underlying Chicago...
...record there was 47 victories and 19 defeats in three years. He also coached track, and for the past three years his teams have won the state championships. He replaces J. K. "Bo" Rowland who will now spend full time on football coaching...
When Publisher Annenberg revealed his determination to spend millions invigorating the Inquirer and make it more blatantly Republican than J. David Stern's Record was Democratic, Philadelphia's Old Dealers took hope. Soon Publisher Annenberg sat at the council tables, if not the dinner tables, of Pennsylvania's Republican aristocracy. By last week, lean, greying, 60-year-old Moe Annenberg had become the leading abomination of Pennsylvania Democrats and the central figure in three political-publishing battles...