Word: totalizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State administers its program independently, the Federal Government matches the State's contribution and adds 5%, for administrative expenses. Some $10,000.000 of Federal money has poured into Oklahoma since the State got its program going in July 1936. When Oklahoma's indigent old reached the impressive total of 68,000 the Social Security Board began to investigate. A random check of the rolls in 46 of the State's 77 counties disclosed that $685,000 of the assistance money had gone to ineligibles, indicated that a complete State check would raise the total...
...Catholic bodies maintaining hospitals, homes, nurseries, settlements, miscellaneous health, vocational and recreational services. The pride of Patrick Cardinal Hayes, New York's "Cardinal of Charities," since its founding 18 years ago, the Catholic Charities has donated $21,000,000 to its constituent bodies, whose expenditures now total $10,000,000 a year. Its 1938 drive, announced last week to begin late this month, will...
...second raised to any power would end in 1, and the third raised to any power would end in 1. Therefore Herr Krieger was making the astonishing assertion that a number ending in 6 or 4, added to a number ending in 1, would give a total ending in 1. The Times man got Krieger on the telephone, explained this...
Artist Marin's total disbelief in copying nature, on the ground that anyone would rather have a real ear of corn than a painted one, led him ten years ago to a kind of shorthand in which a triangle represented a sail, a jigging line the sea. In his recent work, extremes of this kind have given place to more effective economies: strokes of color and ragged whites which sometimes fail but more often succeed in bringing to life the "fighting" forces of wind, weight, water and light which he feels in landscape. Marin works over each picture with...
...Committee recommended that the Federal Government appropriate $70,000,000 for the school year 1939-40 and raise the ante until it reaches $199,000,0001n 1944. Total amount of the appropriation proposed for the six years is $855,000,000. The bulk of the money ($40,000,000 the first year, $140,000,000 the last) would go for elementary and secondary education, the rest for school building, training of teachers, adult education, State educational administration, rural libraries, educational research. The money would be distributed among the States according to their needs. Federal control of what the schools teach...