Word: tendering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...form of "money" to make sales tax payments of less than 1?, despite the Treasury's opinion that such action infringes the Federal Government's sole power under the Constitution to coin money. The States' retort is that what they are issuing is not "legal tender" and therefore worthless for anything but their sales tax. Illinois has issued round aluminum tokens about the size of a dime, is now issuing larger square tokens that are less apt to be misused in telephones, slot machines and other coin devices. In Washington the round metal pieces have a hole...
...Angeles Aqueduct, chief engineer of the St. Francis Dam which collapsed in 1928, killed 400; following an apoplectic stroke; in Los Angeles. An Irish immigrant boy, Builder Mulholland went to Los Angeles in 1877, found it a city of 10,000 people, took a job as zanjero (ditch-tender), studied engineering, enabled the city to attain a million population as a result of his daring municipal water system. When the collapse of the St. Francis Dam caused $30,000,000 damage and the worst flood in California history, Builder Mulholland, deeply shocked, said: "If any human hand was responsible...
...best medium-weight hogs in Chicago last week packers were paying $11 per cwt. Including processing tax a fat, tender 250-lb. porker cost nearly $30. In 1932 the same animal would have brought less than $9. Such fine pig news should have excited farmers of the Midwest but they were singularly apathetic about hog headlines. Fact was, they had very few pigs to sell...
...note two letters in this week's [July 15] issue of TIME from tender-skinned clerical brothers, chiding you for the very thing which makes TIME so good-its fine, fearless frankness. A fortnight ago the magazine was overdue and I had to buy a copy from the newsstand, in order to maintain my Friday equilibrium. Of course I often take issue with what you print, and sometimes you make me mad. I am glad you do upset me: such agitation is necessary for a sane, decanal existence. So keep on being natural and racey-and even spicey...
...much wheat the U. S. will produce this year. The other concerned the effect of rust on the U. S. crop. About rust and its ravages little is known except that winter wheat is seldom damaged by it because the stalks grow tough before the blight appears. But tender spring wheat is particularly susceptible this year because of late seeding. Rust reports flowed into Chicago from all important spring wheat districts last fortnight, giving a fillip to the wheat futures market. Some estimated a loss of 20,000,000 bu., nearly 10% of the spring crop. Last week the Department...