Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vain were the efforts of Senators Hale and Maloney to forbid the use of PWA money to build plants competing with private industry (see p. 59), equally vain Senators' attempts to earmark money, for rivers & harbors, flood control, or PWA projects already approved. The President in a letter to Colorado's Adams, used the magic word "Emergency!" The money must be spent quickly, he said, to bridge the summer gap before private industry can begin adding to its payrolls in the winter. This reasoning defeated also a provision to have the spending spread over a full eight months...
...have my full authority to use this statement...
...still study Latin, about half Greek. But now all boys must take mathematics, science, French and history. A revolutionary development in this 500-year-old classical school is the popularity of its new workshops, where about 100 of Eton's 1,150 young aristocrats, in their spare time, use lathes and machines, build bookcases, boats. Symptomatic also of the change in Eton is the fact that in their-weekly one-hour drawing period boys today may draw railway engines if they like, instead of the conventional pair of oranges and a banana...
...Pennsylvania from coast-to-coast service. Last week the Maritime Commission consummated a smart deal. By wiping out about $10,000,000 of Panama Pacific's debt to the U. S.,* it got title to the three ships. Already operating 47 cargo ships, the Commission planned to use the new ones as the nucleus of a "luxury" passenger and commercial line to the east coast of South America, to vie with the eager efforts of Nazi and Fascist shipping to corner trade in Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina. Awaiting bids this week on the task of refurbishing the vessels with...
...Commodity Credit will use $100,000,000 of its new capital to clear its debt to RFC, $60,000,000 to refund collateral trust notes it sold last year, will have $40,000,000 left for current needs...