Word: spending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having found Congress and the U. S. people in mood to spend, General Craig now figures after three years of record spending that the army has about half the material it needs as a minimum for M Day action. He calculates that the U. S. must spend at least $142,000,000 more to put its army on a "sensible" preparatory footing. Last spring, with the potent help of a White House message, he persuaded Congress to meet the principal deficiency -in anti-aircraft equipment. In Malin Craig's last year the army is spending or allotting...
Having sent this cable, His Highness prepared to leave Johore to spend another holiday in Sumatra, where it is not hard to find attractive mother & daughter setups...
...paradox that by modern standards such Kahn buildings as the Dodge truck plant (see cut) are nearer to 90% art. It is another paradox that when Albert Kahn gets away from his factories, with plenty of money to spend on the job. he luxuriates in a synthetic style exemplified at its cheesiest in the $20,000,000 boom-time Fisher Building in Detroit. For fun, he allows himself to design one house a year-this year a Georgian one. Senior of six brothers, four of whom he put through college, two of whom work in the Kahn firm, Albert...
...take. In Hollywood, long since ashamed of egoparading outside of working hours, it is now fashionable to have a private telephone number, small car, cottage on the beach and one wife at a time. Frank and Lucille Capra, as befits two of the community's most dazzling celebrities, spend most of the year in a vacation cottage at Malibu Beach, send two of their three children to the U. C. L. A. nursery school. Capra's present contract at Columbia calls for one more picture. A major subject of current Hollywood gossip is whether, now that Writer Riskin...
...average cost of private medical care is $76 a person annually. . . . The total [yearly] cost of illness and premature death is $10,000,000,000. We cannot attack successfully with small change a ten-billion-dollar problem." She proposed that the Government embark on a ten-year program to spend $850,000,000 annually. Suggested appropriations: $705,000,000 for expansion of public health facilities, development of maternity and child health centres, financing of medical specialists, eradication of tuberculosis, venereal diseases and malaria, control of fatalities in pneumonia and cancer, promotion of mental hygiene and industrial hygiene...