Word: sizes
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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After President Hoover vetoed the first World War pension bill fortnight ago, not because he objected to the pension principle as a new policy, but because he disapproved of the size and details of the measure, Congress scrambled to give him a bill of the same kind which he would accept. No. 1 Pension Scrambler in the House was Representative Royal Cleaves Johnson of Aberdeen, S. Dak., chairman of the House Veterans Committee. Congressman Johnson, 47, enlisted in the regular Army in January 1918, won a lieutenant's commission, went to France in July and as an infantry officer...
Explaining the bill's size, he commented: "It is a long view plan for the future. It will require many years to complete. . . . [I propose] that we should approach the problem on sound engineering lines, completing the main trunk systems and gradually extending the work outward. . . . The bill does not call for any increase in the budget this year...
...Recent surveys suggest that in Salt Lake City $1 will buy more than in any other U. S. city of equal or greater size...
Record. Publishing its June 30 statement a few days later than most Manhattan banks, Chase National revealed figures of new record-smashing size, remains world's largest bank. Total Chase resources came to $2,648,000,000; deposits were $2,065,000,000. National City remained second in Manhattan with resources of $2,078,000,000; close behind was Guaranty Trust with...
...such fate would befall. Witness L. S. Hall, Gulf retailer in Concord, N. H., and the counsel for the defense went into a long discussion of Royal Dutch-Shell's activities. Asked whether he did not know that Gulf Oil Corp. of Pennsylvania was perhaps second in size only to Royal Dutch-Shell, honest Witness Hall replied, "I have no knowledge on the subject...