Word: totalizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Railroads - added passenger traffic plus savings resulting from freight traffic operations would represent the equivalent of a total increased revenue of at least $100,000,000 per year...
Washington heard that one to one-and-one-half billions was the total in the Lend-Spenders' minds for their new pump-priming act. Secretary Morgenthau was reported to have traded his support to the plan in return for the President's acquiescence in income tax revision (see p. 16). Majority Leader Barkley assured his Senate mates that the program, whatever shape it might finally take, would not be dumped sensationally into Congress' lap this session. The way for it might be paved simply by extending the authority of existing agencies, such...
Speaking last week at Asbury Park, N. J., pure-hearted Frank Murphy made sounds very much like a man planing a 1940 political plank. He viewed with alarm "the astonishing total of approximately 4,000,000 Government employes receiving in salaries nearly $6,000,000,000 a year ! " Then he pointed with pride and sympathy at 30,000,000 U. S. families whose average income is $1,500. "I am convinced," he cried, "that it is the average families, in the main, who foot the bill for this enormous pay roll. . . . Thirteen percent of a family's annual income...
...lights of Miami. After compelling the St. Louis to leave Havana harbor, President Federico Laredo Bru had offered a temporary haven on the Isle of Pines, pleasure spot and home of the Cuban national penitentiary, provided refugee agencies would post a $500 bond for each individual, a total of $453,500, and further guarantee the cost of Cuban hospitality...
Also on the Wyoming and the Harbert for this cruise will be the Naval R.O.T.C. units of Yale Georgia Tech. and Northwestern, making a total of about 400 to 500 students...