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...bought a $10,000 herd of dairy cattle. For some cows it paid $950 although they had been offered previously for $200 apiece. The rich milk from the expensive herd was then traded for low-grade milk from commercial dairies. "Just why ... is not apparent," said the McCarl report...
With four billion Work Relief dollars in their pockets, Frank Walker, Harold Ickes and Harry Hopkins went to the White House one afternoon last week, spent two hours parceling out the first billion. Half of it went for highways, roads, streets, grade crossings. PWA got a quarter billion dollars for slum clearance, low-cost housing. Rural Resettlement Administrator Rexford Guy Tugwell received a round $100,000,000 to spend as he pleased. Another $100,000,000 went to Army engineers, half of it for dredging the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Two genuinely newsworthy prizes were drawn from the grab...
...Patent Office is a bureau of the Department of Commerce. It employs about 600 clerks in addition to 700 examiners who must hold engineering degrees to be permitted to take the entrance examination, law degrees to be promoted after reaching a certain grade. The bureau has taken in $8,000,000 more than it has spent, pays the largest printing bill of any Government bureau, trains patent lawyers, stays constantly behind in its work, resists the onslaught of its critics, continues to grant more & more patents. Seven hundred thousand patents are now in force...
...years ago. Since then he has been doing bit parts and managerial work on Broadway. To See Ourselves is the first show he has produced and directed. It is also the U. S. theatrical premiére of Author E. M. Delafield (Elizabeth M. Dashwood), a capable, Grade B English literary lady (Diary of a Provincial Lady, The Provincial Lady in America), Both débuts scored tranquil, unostentatious successes...
...Tasting. The grading of canned peas has long been a matter of human taste. Dr. Zoltan Imre Kertesz of the New York State division of food chemistry reported that the proportion of peas soluble in alcohol was a much better index of grade, that many a canner was ready to replace human tasters with alcoholic robots...