Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...name, locality, product and capacity a manufacturer who has agreed to turn out a stipulated quantity of army matériel. So far the Department has found no way to get around the cost-plus contract of World War ill-fame. But the 400 different contract forms in use then have been reduced to five, in the hope that simple phrasing and fore-analysis of actual plant costs may hold profiteering to a minimum...
Henry George (1839-1897), who proposed to end depressions and poverty by levying a single tax on land values, thus freeing the land for productive use and restoring to capital & labor the profits wrested from them by landowners, was nearly elected mayor of New York City in 1886. After his death, his creed languished. Only a handful of believers were left when in 1932 one Oscar H. Geiger, a businessman, started the Henry George School. Geiger gathered 84 pupils, taught them one course with George's Progress and Poverty as the text, died at the end of the year...
Westerner: Use your eyes, mister. Look around you. These blighted miles of hot sand have been made fit places to live in. Think of it! One day worth nothin' 'cept to go crazy thirstin' and watchin' vinegarroons crawlin' by the cacti, and today worth one billion dollars in taxable property! That's progress for ye, mister, that's progress...
Last week, Track Wizard Toole told his listeners to use the money they won on his tips to buy an R. B. $16.75 suit or overcoat. To each of these purchasers the sales clerk gave a silver dollar to be dropped into a box for Willie Winn. When at week's end he unlocked his box, there were 342 silver dollars for Willie. Since he is a broadcaster of uncertain habits and sudden impulses, the WAAF engineer keeps an alert finger near the control switch, ready to snap him off the air if he should start heading...
...scientifically" to modern life. The Federation considers the lilies of the field, how they grow, and it accepts Christ's words: Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works. To grow like the lily or to shine like the light is to use the "creative essence of the power of God," which everyone possesses. Not everyone, however, has an equal chance to create. So the Federation, by means of a revolving sinking fund to which each of its members lends $25, attempts to equalize matters by training, and finding jobs for, people...