Word: totalizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among other economies he decided to lop a chunk off the salaries of the "highly paid" State employes and dedicate it to the unemployed. Total economy drive sum: $6,000,000, trifling by U. S. relief standards but nearly 8% of Cuba's revenues, the equivalent of $425,000,000 to the U. S. Treasury...
...solved, the AAA last week fixed 1939 benefit payments at 26-to-30? a bu., 14-18? above the 1938 rate, for U. S. wheat farmers who reduce their acreage 31%. Otherwise, next year's crop-control program is substantially the same as this year's. Total amount earmarked for 1939 benefit payments...
...sanitary line" of six standardized brands to be promoted as quality, trademarked products. Young Arthur Scott also devised the company's first effective slogan, "Soft as old linen." By 1910 it was apparent that his idea of specialization was correct; his six brands provided 80% of the total sales of $726,264.09. About that time Scott paper towels came into being as the result of a carload of paper too crunchy for toilet use. Together, the two products in 1937 gave Scott a sales volume of $13,843,542. In the first half of 1938 sales reached...
...mainly they wrestled with the Iraq servant problem (they had 15, costing a total of $153 a month). When they imported garden seed from England, the gardener threw out everything except onion seed, because he didn't like lettuce and such stuff. When a houseboy was married, they were put to much bother to provide a special room, because young Mohammed didn't want the customary wedding-night snoopers hanging around his door. One servant had a mania for jabbing people with forks. Household provisions disappeared as by magic. When a discharged servant was told he had been...
...talks with his wife and neighbors about the situation in general. In tone, these conversations are not very different from equally interminable conversations about his generally pleasant and prospering plantation affairs. And since both Cavin and his wife (an idyllic pair) are dimly characterized, the novel's total effect is to make the violence of Reconstruction seem as placid as Cavin's family is respectably heroic...