Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Debt. The net deficit represents a potential addition to the National debt now approaching $37,000,000,000. Thanks to the fact that the Government will buy more than $1,000,000,000 worth of its own bonds for special investment accounts, largely in connection with pension and social security measures, the Treasury will not have to resort to public financing. Indeed, the National debt in the hands of the public will probably be smaller at the end of next June than last June...
...more just standard of judging students would be reached. Entrance examinations would of course be retained but would be given in this combined form. Although the translation of the theory into actual college entrance policy would require a general reorganization of the present system, it is an experiment well worth testing...
...books at the end of the year. Obviously, when the Coop is acquainted with the books to be used the following fall, they will not buy books they cannot hope to sell again, and they also offer, for books that are to be used again, more than they are worth. This necessitates an even higher price for such books the following September...
...occasion, a Whitney horse, Ballyhoo Bey, won the Futurity Stakes, richest race in the world for 2-year-olds. Next year Volodyovski, racing in the silks of William Collins Whitney, won the English Derby and gleeful Mr. Whitney set up Coney Island Jockey Club to $6,000 worth of champagne...
...short networks along rural roads, trolley cars, interurban electric lines and railroads had already pre-empted the best U. S. transportation routes. Slim indeed seemed the prospects of the infant bus industry. Last year the onetime infant had driven trolleys entirely out of 434 cities, had $690,000,000 worth of equipment, operated 1,389.000 miles of route, carried over 3,000,000,000 passengers, and its 4,780 bus companies had an aggregate income of $467,000,000. Of the 124,000 busses in service, 46,750 run on scheduled lines, about 75,000 carry children to and from...