Word: totalizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Farm Tenancy program: 2) cut the Labor Relations Board's request for $1,800,000 in half; 3) denied the Agriculture Department $500,000 for the Great Plains shelterbelt tree plantings; 4) disapproved an additional $10,000.000 which Chairman Joseph P. Kennedy was seeking for his Maritime Commission. Total intended economies: about 30% of Budget Bureau estimates...
Last week's nuptials, involving two pairs of sisters, brought the season's total of weddings among males of the Raleigh crew to 15. A 16th wedding was postponed because Seaman Charles Shapperly of Haw River, N. C. had neglected to post his banns ten days in advance, and the Raleigh sailed for Marseille...
...month that Adolf Hitler came into power in 1933, German unemployment had reached the total of 6,013,000, within 10% of its all-time high. On Aug. 1 there were only 563,000 registered unemployed in Germany-a drop of 86,000 during July...
Maryland's economical Millard Tydings, who thinks with Virginia's Byrd, slipped through an amendment limiting any one State to 20% of the total to be spent. His argument: "I furthermore predict New York will receive practically all the money this bill contains." Senator Tydings found support in Robert Rice Reynolds, playboy but astute politician. Sang out Senator Reynolds: ". . . If $700,000,000 of the people's money is to be expended, I want North Carolina, God bless her, to have her part, although she does not need it particularly...
...watchful Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, manifestoed: "China is determined to fight to the last man! . . . The policy of our Government has been consistent from beginning to end; namely, that we cannot surrender any territory or allow our sovereignty to be encroached upon. I call upon the Nation to mobilize our total resources and struggle hand-in-hand to save China...