Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...necessary the entire $790,000,000 Relief appropriation* would be spent for Flood Relief. No Representative wanted to vote against Flood Relief and, on the flood crests of the Ohio and the Mississippi, Franklin Roosevelt's Relief program rode to an easy victory. Only flaw in his success in cutting Relief costs was the rapidly growing realization that the cost of Flood Relief would knock all Mr. Hopkins' calculations into a watersoaked cocked...
...Arrow monoplane, powered with a Ford V8, which went to Negro Perry Newkirk for $1,500. Even cheaper was the Taylor Cub, over 1,000 of which have been sold. In the first three days, sales of ten more Cubs were reported at $1,270 each. Similar success attended the rival Taylorcraft. Last week, Horace Keane Co. had a slick white Ace Monoplane with a Ford V8, out to rival Arrow. The Bureau of Air Commerce showed its Pitcairn readable autogiro. It was supposed to drive in through the streets, but Manhattan's police said it would have...
...attitude and interests is able to profit from a type of work which places a large degree of responsibility upon the student himself. This is perhaps the most important and also the most difficult of all the problems involved, and upon its proper solution will depend the success or failure of any modifications that may have to be worked...
...Pont de Nemours & Company has decided to increase the number of fellowships it awards annually to six post-doctorate fellowships and eighteen post-graduate fellowships and eighteen post-graduate fellowships for the academic year 1937-38. This action has been taken because of the success of the plan in encouraging and developing organic chemical research. These fellowships, which will be located at eighteen leading universities and colleges including Harvard, are maintained to encourage more promising students in research work in the field of chemistry...
...more immediate interest than this tribute to the success of divisional is the part of the report dealing with the tutorial system. Here vital changes are taking place. For the Dean's office, finally realizing the failure of tutorial for certain types of students, has moved toward establishing two brands of tutorial instruction; one for those who genuinely benefit from it, and the other for those for whom course work makes a full schedule and further effort is backbreaking...