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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Wisconsin. Milwaukee prepared to put 13,500 workless men to work on a three-day per week basis at 60 cents per hour. Cost...
Fifty years ago these schools were founded by Evangelist Dwight Lyman Moody as a place where disadvantaged boys and girls might receive a preparatory education at small cost. As the institution has progressed and expanded it has lost much of its early religious flavor. It now likes to be known as a purely educational institution, being at pains to make clear that the celebrated annual Northfield Religious Conferences are merely held on the school grounds during vacations, are not part of the school year. Northfield being needy and this its semicentennial year, there is now in progress a drive...
...backward communities. Each member of the community works some part of each day, earns 64% of his or her keep. Thus when Arthur Curtiss James gave Mount Hermon a gymnasium not long ago, the inmates turned out and filled, graded, drained, seeded a playing field which would have cost...
...Roping Lions in the Grand Canyon, etc.). He charged neighboring hunters with spreading untrue, derogatory tales about his sportsmanship. Said he: "In twelve years my whole bag of game has been five bears, three bucks and a few turkeys. I have written 15 novels with Arizona background. Personally it cost me $30,000 to get material for one book alone-To the Last Man. My many trips all over the State have cost me $100,000. So in every way I have not been exactly an undesirable visitor. Nevertheless I have been grossly insulted . . . lied about . . . and otherwise alienated. This...
Capt. Heinen, a Zeppelin pilot in the War, later a consulting engineer for the Navy's ill-fated dirigible Shenandoah (TIME, Sept. 14, 1925), built his "air yacht" to be produced commercially "for family use." Its initial cost was $19,000, but the prospective purchase price, the designer said, would be "far below $10,000," the operating cost-per-mile lower than that of an automobile...