Word: spent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...letter to Chairman Mansfield of the House Rivers & Harbors Committee, President Roosevelt urged revival of two pet projects: 1) The projected $200,000,000 Florida Ship Canal (on which $5,400,000 of WPA money was spent before work was discontinued in 1936), for the dual object of providing national defense and a commercially important public work for unemployed lasting perhaps ten or 15 years.* 2) The $36,000,000 Passamaquoddy Bay tidal power project (on which $7,000,000 was spent up to the summer of 1936, when Maine's apathy discouraged further appropriations), to give Eastern Maine...
...that his genius as an administrator lies in his endless patience with subordinates, his capacity for getting such work as they are capable of out of men whose limitations he understands. "Pink" Harrington is a West Pointer and his No. 2 man is no fuddy-duddy. Howard Hunter spent 18 months with the A. E. F. as an officer in Tulane University's medical unit, was a Boy Scout executive, for ten years a professional fundraiser for Community Chests-picked by Harry Hopkins, who was once an expert in private charitarian money-gathering...
Officials of British Broadcasting Corp. spent hours telephoning everyone in the London telephone directory named Duck. Their hope: to discover someone with a son called Donald, to act the part of Donald Duck...
Last year 6,000,000 U. S. residents took out fishing licenses. Probably twice that number went fishing. They spent more than $10,000,000 on tackle alone* (twice the amount they spent in 1933). Major reason for the current spurt is a vogue for deep-sea angling, increasingly popular in the past five years since it has been dramatized in newsreels and publicized by fishermen like Zane Grey, Ernest Hemingway and Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
...every dollar spent for sport equipment in the U. S. last year, 24? went for fishing tackle...