Word: spending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...approved the constitutionality of giving the Philippines the $50,000,000 (100,000,000 pesos) proceeds of the coconut oil processing tax which the U. S. imposed in 1934. So President Quezon, although he bitterly opposed the original imposition of the tax, now has 100,000,000 pesos to spend and is intent on getting full credit for it. To a special session of his legislature, he explained how he proposed to start spending this windfall...
North Beach then became Municipal Airport No. 2 (Floyd Bennett is No. i) and when President Roosevelt aboard his yacht fortnight ago assigned $9,050,900 of Federal money to be spent through WPA on enlarging North Beach, the work got under way. New York City has agreed to spend...
...F.C.C. makes its decision; that KFJZ was being bought by his wife, but that under Texas law husband and wife share jointly in estate and income; that Ruth Googins Roosevelt is worth $99,500; that he has an income "in excess of $20,000"; that his wife planned to spend $60,000 making KFJZ one of the finest small stations in the U. S. in the next three years. Asked after the hearing how he thought he would fare, Radioman Roosevelt avowed: "All right, I guess. But then maybe not. My name's Roosevelt and the commission may decide...
...Howard Hughes. Deafened and groggy, Winner Fuller called for a bottle of soda pop, repaired to a Coney Island hotel. A thick man in his late thirties, Frank Fuller is secretary-treasurer of San Francisco's W. P. Fuller & Co. (paint), founded by his grandfather. He does not spend much time in his office. His wife, brother, sister and cousin are all flyers, and the Fuller planes take up half of a hangar at Mills Field. Californians generally call them "the flying Fullers...
ROBINSON OF ENGLAND-John Drink-water-Macmillan ($2.50). Thoroughly dull English novel, an innocuous tale of three children who spend their winter holiday discussing English history with their writer-uncle; the last Drinkwater completed before his death in March...