Word: tens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...engineers' efforts at flood-control "the most colossal engineering blunder of the human race." Mayor Thompson said that "our failure [to prevent floods] is a national humiliation." Discussing the Hoover plan (which was chiefly the expenditure of some $150,000,000 to $200,000,000 in the next ten years in strengthening the levee system and supplementing it with spillways) Mr. Thompson said that Mr. Hoover was merely repeating previous flood-control methods on a somewhat larger scale and added that the natural desire to arrive as soon as possible at some plan of flood prevention was likely...
...Beach made a speech. Little Rollins, he said, needs a ten-million-dollar endowment. It needs buildings. Plans are drawn for "the most beautiful group of college buildings of this type of architecture in America. Hamilton Holt, the president, has made in California and in the Mediterranean countries a special survey of buildings suitable for the Florida climate and is now having architects draw plans calling for the best effects...
...start with, we will collect 1,000 cats. Each cat will average twelve kittens a year. The skins will sell for from ten cents for the white ones to 75¢ for the pure black. We will have about twelve million skins to sell at an average of 30¢ apiece, making our revenue about $10,000 per day, gross...
...propose to capitalize at $100,000 common and $1,000,000 preferred stock, giving ten shares of preferred stock gratis with each share of common stock bought at par. We can sell all the stock and more right here in Cardiff, and we offer to let you in only because we think that it would be selfish to keep all of such a good thing in one city. But you best wire us what you want to do about it, for our friends are pressing us hard for all the stock...
...investigation of Mr. Voight's amateur status by the U. S. G. A. is entirely independent of the District of Columbia body. A decision is expected within the next ten days, determining whether or not Mr. Voight can enter the U. S. Amateur Championship...