Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...salary in a separate account from my personal funds and distributed it where I thought it would do the most good. Part of it went to supplement salaries of men who were working under me and whom the Government paid less than I thought they were worth. Part of it went to charities. The latter practice has been a source of a great deal of embarrassment since I became a private citizen. As long as I was President, for example, I sent to the San Francisco Welfare Board [presumably Publisher Scott meant the Community Chest] a check every year...
That ruddy and genial Scot, Stewart McDonald, who has administered FHA for the past two years and who has seen that it has so far taken losses on just 1/1,000% of all business done, observed with customary enthusiasm: "Fifty million dollars worth of building will feel the steam shovels Monday morning!" FHA Administrator McDonald, a onetime motormaker who produced the first cheap, goodlooking car (Moon, Diana), has already done his part. He built himself a house at Palm Beach this winter...
...faith which U. S. investors have had in Cuba's $80,867,000 worth of defaulted Public Works bonds, a faith which has inched the bonds from a record low 19¾ in 1933 to 74⅞ early this year, was climaxed politically in Havana last week. The bottom of 19! was hit soon after Dictator Gerardo Machado was forced to flee the island following the 1933 revolt. Eight years before he had embarked on an ambitious construction program which called for a 7O0-mile highway skewing the island; and streets, schools, public buildings for Havana. It was largely...
Chorus of one of the first Dutch popular songs composed to honor the newborn Princess is intelligible only if one knows that a riks is a coin worth 2½ gulden. The chorus...
...Gypsum, Armstrong Cork. When new building dried up six months ago it sent out 2,200 questionnaires to executives in all types of industry except railways and utilities. Last week it announced that 275 firms, of which only 25 were big, had admitted holding up nearly $200,000,000 worth of industrial construction. Reasons given: 72% blamed the undistributed profits tax, most of the rest blamed uncertainty over Government policies, a negligible few feared labor troubles...