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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the Treasury, Secretary Mills was summoned to give his views on the revenue-raising features of the beer bill. He estimated it would net only $125,000,000 to $150,000,000 per year whereas more than twice that amount was needed to balance the Budget...
...white tags) $95,550,000 of Bank of England gold, thereby making it the property in London of the Federal Reserve. Promptly the Federal Reserve sent a blue-clad, barrel-chested guard to tie onto the two closet doors tags bearing no words but a number. This number served twice as an earmark in the next few minutes. It was first written down on the books of the Federal Reserve to the credit of the Bank of England, then transferred to the credit of the U. S. Treasury, thereby making the gold in the two closets the property...
...women who left the Graduate School of Education with degrees last June, it was announced yesterday by F. C. Smith, Registrar of the school, in the fell owing statement: "In a year when other schools of education were having difficulty finding jobs for even half their graduates there were twice as many positions open to Harvard students as there were applicants. Of these 133 men and women, 106, or 84 percent, are now working on full time teaching jobs, while the remainder are either on part time work, or choose to continue their educational study...
...pleasure from practice sessions. On the other hand, the intramural athlete does not want to practice. It matters little that he makes errors; his fun comes from playing, and on the days of a practice session he seldom appears. To interest the intramural athlete, then, you must schedule almost twice as many games for his teams as you arrange for the intercollegiate group, a practice commonly referred to as "overemphasis" in intercollegiate sport...
...seals of Dr. Martha Eliot of the U. S. Children's Bureau, Dr. Elmer Martin Nelson of the Department of Agriculture and Dr. Chester Deebell Tolle of the Bureau of Fisheries. Salmon oil (probably to be called Saliver, unless the connotation of saliva forbids) contains, they said, twice the Vitamin D potency of cod liver oil. Happy news to the salmon industry is that 1,000,000 gal. of the oil a year can be salvaged from canning wastes...