Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ohio, where the State school fund was $17,000,000 in the hole, several cities knew not how long they could keep schools open. School funds were low in Colorado, Michigan, Illinois, the Dakotas. The most desperate S. 0. S. came from schools in Georgia and Pennsylvania...
...Money, a comprehensive book published last week.* A white-fringed Yaleman of 52, Author Leavens first got interested in silver when he was teaching in Changsha, China, found that his paycheck fluctuated constantly. Today an acknowledged authority, he is employed by the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics, a Colorado Springs nonprofit organization set up in 1932 by Alfred Cowles...
Last week the chairman of the full Committee, old (80) Edward Taylor of Colorado, announced after a White House conference (at which he promised a a $994,000 irrigation project in Colorado's Delta County), that this time he would handle the $150,000,000 item himself, and that he was for it. "Purge!" cried the anti-Spenders and set their heels down harder than ever...
Over 100,000 square-miles in Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, New Mexico, gales raged up to 40, 50, even 80 m.p.h. Relatively moist and verdant this year in its south west section, protected by terracing and furrow farming, the Bowl got nothing like its 1935 dusting. But farmers sneezed and grew red-eyed, Oklahoma City motorists needed headlights at midday, in some parts of Oklahoma visibility shrank to 100 feet...
...asked-but without annoyance. Before publicly putting the heat on Congress he told his press conference that he would ask only for as much as WPAdministrator Harrington found was needed. Three days later-behind closed doors in the White House-he politely asked a House subcommittee headed by Colorado's Taylor to provide the money. Not often before has Franklin Roosevelt said "Pretty please" to Congress...