Word: stone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Direct labor is only a fraction of the cost of a job. Secretary Ickes' public works, by his own estimate, average $2,132 for every man employed because steel, stone, cement, lumber and other heavy materials have to be bought for such projects. Obviously President Roosevelt would have to cut down on the number of jobs he would be able to give out of his $4,000,000,000 or else he would have to strike out all expensive materials from his schedule and thereby reduce the kind of work offered almost to the leaf-raking level...
...down to $959-but most cities and states are too hard pressed to leap at the chance. The President said nothing, but Washington was certain that the bulk of the $4,000,000,000 was going eventually to drop into the lap of Harry Hopkins. He alone needs little stone or steel, can put a white collar man on the payroll at a cost of 20? (for pencil and paper), a laborer at a cost of $1 (for a rake). For his $4,000,000,000 last week it looked as if the President would get an abundance of wooden...
...liner President Roosevelt kept a 24-hr, guard over the ship's vault. Inside it reposed the famed Jonker diamond, world's largest uncut gem and the largest privately owned diamond anywhere. Discovered by a South African farmer named Jonker last year (TIME, Jan. 29, 1934), the stone weighs 726 carats (about five ounces), is bigger than...
...Ringer; F. M. Rivinus; R. E. Rogers; H. P. Rosen; J. C. Rowley; Nicholas Satterlee; Peter Scott; R. L. Scott; H. P. Shaw; W. W. Shirk; E. S. Skinner; R. W. Sides, E. A. H. Sims; F. B. Snyder; F. H. Stewart; O. M. Stirling; L. A. Stone; F. W. Tomkins, Jr.; Leicester Warren, Jr.; R. C. Webster; A. T. Wells, Jr.; J. R. Weston; F. L. P. White; G. G. Whitney; V. L. Whitney, Jr.; T. H. Witherby; W. W. Wolbach...
...asked $500, got $1,500 and an "elegant carriage" with a span of Kentucky-blooded horses and two slaves, largest fee on record up to 1822. There is no public record of who held the hands of James K. Polk when Dr. McDowell repaired a rupture and removed a stone from the future President's bladder...