Word: spendings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alanson B. Houghton, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, arrived in the U. S. for a three weeks' visit and settled down to spend a good part of it as White House guest...
...Department of Agriculture announced the probable expenditure on roads in the U. S. for 1926. Local authorities are expected to spend $431,000,000. State highway departments are expected to spend $598,000,000 (of which $118,000,000 is to come as contributions from the Federal Government). The total expenditure of slightly over a billion dollars will provide 6,751 miles of asphalt, concrete and brick roads, 14,320 miles of sand-clay, gravel and macadam, and 8,145 miles of improved dirt road?and maintenance of 234,582 miles of roadway...
...last census, one gray horse, one Ford truck, a sense of humor, and, naturally, a wife. And though John can manage the horse, the truck, and even the sense of humor --Jennie goes her own way. Last fall she wanted to drive a car since John refused to spend his time in the cinema at Burlington--she did. And the rumor is that she had to go out of Charlotte to get the license, for a tree near the store is proof positive that she could get none in Charlotte. "Wish by gar it had a kilt her," said John...
...majority of concerns set a definite standard as to the number of hours a man should put in, based on their experience. They have definitely found that a man can work a certain number of hours, and spend them profitably...
...this advance will not reach its goal unless there is more money spent upon it than Harvard College now has to spend. Quantity production of college graduates is a fairly cheap proceeding. We have been turning them out in great numbers in this country. But to teach men as individuals costs money more money than America has been willing to pay. The question is whether the money will be forthcoming to support this improvement at Harvard and advances of a similar nature that are being tried at Swarthmore and Dartmouth. It will be interesting to see whether the country...