Word: thousand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With expedients exhausted, Toledo's deficit last week reached $800,000. Cleveland had only a few thousand dollars to pay for relief until Jan. 1, said it needed $1,000,000. The urban centres pleaded for a special meeting of the Legislature, but Republican Governor John W. Bricker, elected on a platform pledging "adequate relief," insisted that other means should be found first...
...before bark beetles and fire took their toll, the Department of Agriculture's Northeast Timber Salvage Administration went to work. By last September it had bought 600,000,000 feet of hurricane timber from some 30,000 owners for an over-all cost of better than $20 a thousand board feet, looked around for a buyer...
...last week came Northeastern Timber Marketing Association in a deal without precedent. For the sum of $14,400,000, the association agreed to take the entire 600,000,000 feet (95% white pine) off the Government's hands. It agreed to pay an average price of $24 a thousand board feet, to put up a $750,000 bond and $100,000 cash by Dec. i, to pay off in $800,000 quarterly payments over the next four and a half years. Limited to a profit of 20%, the association must split anything above that with the Government, which...
...picture is emotional to the nth degree, the fact remains that democracy, Americanism--call it what you will--is more a matter of emotion than cold logic. When an American sees the statue in the Lincoln Memorial, he does not see merely the image of a great President. A thousand and one connotations are called up by that sight--the struggle for the Union, the defeat of slavery, in fact, the whole "American dream." Knowing this fact, Capra has played upon it to the limit. Let him who can find a better foundation for democracy cast the first words...
...Three thousand pounds of milk-fed turkey flesh have been collected from farms in Montana, the Dakotas, and Wisconsin, and are being rushed via special refrigerator cars to Cambridge. This season's gobblers are unusually large, ranging from 16 to 18 pounds apiece, and in the words of Westcott, are "check full of white meat...