Word: surpluses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their pictures taken. Portraitists have flourished in England ever since the Ger man Holbein, the Flemish Van Dyck came to make their everlasting fame & fortune at the British court. For 200 years Eng land has painted most of its own portraits, in good times even manages to export a surplus crop. Such British painters as Augustus John, Simon Elwes, Frank O. Salisbury, the late Anglicized Philip de Laszló have reaped a golden harvest from U. S. tycoons and socialites anxious to show a good face to posterity...
...looking for records, the Square is well stocked with stores which despite a surplus of Kay Kayser, manage to keep a pretty satisfying stock on hand. Well-founded rumor has it that an attempt is being made to found a real swing club at Harvard with record concerts and demonstrations by some of the country's best. And then the House Committees always slip up occasionally and get a good band for one of the House dances...
...hand, the U. S. beet and cane crop was estimated at 2,100,000 more and in overproducing Cuba a crop of 3,500,000 was in prospect -all ample to meet U. S. needs (annual consumption: 6,600,000 tons) with plenty left over for the perennial Cuban surplus. For the fall killing there were a bumper pig crop, ample supplies of other meats except lamb, in which the 1939 crop is short, and Chicago packers were passing up orders from abroad because the British had fixed their prices below the level to which last week's speculative...
...Buell, is its peculiar domestic and external problems. They are numerous and acute. Poland has 1) an unfortunate place on the map, between two countries which have more than once collaborated in partitioning it; 2) no natural frontiers; 3) desperate agrarian problems, aggravated by lack of markets and a surplus population; 4) explosive minorities (approximately 3,300,000 Jews, 750,000 Germans, 1,500,000 White Russians, 5,000,000 Ukrainians in a population of 34,500,000) ; 5) precarious political conflicts, kept in check only by the Poles' fervent nationalism. Thus traditional suspicions of Germany and Russia have...
...physician who is assigned to an ambulance, first-aid post, or hospital, will draw a salary ranging from $2,500 to $7,500 a year for full-time services. All physicians remaining in private practice, and making more than their "normal" peacetime income will be required to place their surplus profits in a pool, to be divided among Army and Navy doctors at the war's end. Medical care for the 1,000,000 school children who were evacuated from large cities and compensation for victims of air raids will be paid by the Government...