Word: moneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Orland Russell Sweeney developed wallboard-from-cornstalks at Iowa's tax-supported State College. State money went to erect a $150,000 testing plant. The patents, when issued to Dr. Sweeney, thus belonged to Iowa, whose agent Dr. Sweeney was in obtaining them...
Warned Nebraska's Senator Norris last week: "Under that [Finney] decision the Secretary of the Interior is able to nullify the most important provision in the Boulder Dam Bill and give to the power trust every kilowatt of power generated by the expenditure of public money at Boulder...
...come to my assistance at this time would bring down upon their heads the resentment and enmity of the most powerful forces on 'The Street.' They told me the gods of Wall Street had practically proclaimed my doom and that nothing on earth could prevent this great money-machine from mowing me down...
...unimportant ones, of yielding in big events to the inspired rallies of inferior players. Two weeks ago he broke his custom of staying in Florida all winter by going to Agua Caliente, Mexico. The men who have built hotels, casinos and a race-track there to attract the money formerly spent at Tia Juana, a few miles away, tempted him and other famed players by making the prizes of their first tournament bigger than those of any other tournament in the world...
Writers & Artists. Grantland Rice, sportswriter, makes more money than anyone else in his profession by his combined activities-as colyumist reporter for the New York Herald Tribune, editing short cinema "sportlights," editing his magazine The American Golfer, which he recently sold to publisher Condé Nast. Once a year he demonstrates his knowledge of golf by competing in the artists' and writers' championship in Palm Beach. Last week, after eliminating his fellow Nast editor, Frank Crowninshield of Vanity Fair, he won the tournament for the third time, beating Jefferson Machamer, Manhattan artist, 2 and 1. Cartoonist Rube Goldberg...