Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Permission to use U. S. troops in such ceremonies as the funeral procession of Cardinal Hayes is obtained from the commander of the Army corps area...
...four-year scholarship to Manhattan's National Conservatory of Music. Head of the Conservatory was Anton Dvorak. After supper, Dvorak would coax another Negro song out of young Burleigh's teeming repertory. Shortly afterwards appeared Dvorak's New World symphony, the first to use Negro spirituals...
...Mailomat, whose price to the Government, or rental to industry, is still unfixed, is a development of the postage meter Walter Bowes persuaded the Post Office to try in 1920, year after he and the late Arthur Pitney formed Pitney-Bowes. Since then use of postage meters has risen until they now provide the U. S. Government with 16% of its annual postage revenue. Practically every big U. S. company has either rented or bought a Pitney-Bowes machine to speed up its mailing. Pitney-Bowes profits meanwhile have risen to $614,791 in 1937, $586,416 last year...
...Dear Joe. . . . Idle dollars profit no man. . . . We have mastered the technique of creating necessary credit; we have now to deal with the problem of assuring its full use. . . ." The substance of the letter was: Tell us the answers to depression...
...reduced the flow, since first of the year it has subsided. Sir John has bottled up all the potential refugee cash that did not escape before. Only bounders will persist in selling pounds and buying dollars, but the British Government has marvelously effective ways of cracking down by the use of "influence." Thus one month after Britain had begun conscripting men, preparations were being made to conscript wealth, too-by consent...