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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...school of oceanography at Wood's Hole has been founded with the gift of $2,500,000 granted by the Rockefeller Foundation at the recommendation of the National Academy of Sciences. One million is to be used to build and equip the school, $1,000,000 for a permanent endowment fund, and $500,000 as a special operating fund for the first decade, to be paid in annual installments...
Said he: ". . . 80% of the cost of a ship is labor. The immense subsidies which foreign ships squeeze out of the wages of those who build them and operate them are no less subsidies because they are taken from labor alone than are government payments to ships, to which payments the people as a whole contribute. Is anyone so dull that he cannot comprehend this obvious fact? Why then do critics of our policy ignore...
...desert, hard-packed and lava-strewn, so well as they had crossed their native Sahara. Their wily stubborness made them unpopular with the soldiery; they stampeded horses and cattle. Nevertheless they were tested systematically in desert service for several years. In 1860 some of them helped build the famed Butterfield Stage road. In 1863 a dromedary express was started from San Pedro (port for Los Angeles) to Tucson, but it failed...
...bought a farm on a lake not far from Battle Creek to make a summer home for underprivileged children. For the same sort of children he is helping Battle Creek build a $500,000 Ann J. Kellogg school (Ann Jeanette Kellogg was his mother). Early in October before President Hoover roused the country for unemployment help, he put his Battle Creek factory on a five-day-a-week basis to employ 300 more men. The factory has been running 24 hours a day, in three eight-hour shifts, for 2,500 employes. Last fortnight he altered his factory schedule again...
...only by U. S. Steel and Bethlehem in the extent of its ore reserves. It has girded itself for future growth, spending $7,000,000 on improving Weirton Steel's plants, in addition to the $25,000,000 program in Ecorse. Recently it incorporated Mid-West Steel to build a $50,000,000 plant on a 1,100-acre tract at Gary...