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Trends Of Municipal Expenditures In Second Class Cities Of Kentucky From 1926 To 1933, Howard Taylor

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The increase of city expenditures was noticeable for the past two decades. During the depression there arose a greater demand on the part of both tax payers and city officials for some information concerning the costs of city government, what was responsible for the increase, for what municipal funds were expended, and where the cost of city government was headed.

The question of how expenditures in certain departments compared with those of other departments was also a pertinent one. Education suffered an enormous reduction as compared to what had been spent from 1928 to 1932. There was a wide-spread belief …

Where Are We Going? — An Impartial Review Of Nra, Robert E. Mcconnell

All Faculty Scholarship for the College of Education and Professional Studies

Few if any matters have received the attention of more speakers and writers than the National Recovery Act. Virtually each has gone into the subject from a different angle and each wound up at a different place. No exception to this rule was displayed when Dr. Robert E. McConnell, president Washington State Normal School, Ellensburg, said the following at the annual meeting...

The Airplane As A Factor In Modern Transportation, Robert Fenix

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

This paper was planned with the object of covering the history and development of air transportation from its incep- tion to the present time. The mythology concerning aviation has been taken up at the beginning and this has been followed by a discussion of the earliest experiments in flying. The activities of the Wright Brothers began about 1900 and in 1909 they sold the Wright Flyer" to the United States Govern- ment. The development of pre-war and wartime airplanes is next taken up.

The World War was significant in airplane history. During this period airplanes were improved tremendously, because of …

Trends Of Property Taxes In Brookings County And In South Dakota From 1915 To 1938, Adlowe Lyle Larson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Taxes have been in the past and undoubtedly will continue to be in the future of governments and peoples. That the statement is true in South Dakota and in Brookings County we will agree. In order that one may know more of South Dakota taxes one must attempt to dig from the records available facts that are worth while. In this state the property tax , or general tax, has been the major source of revenue. This property tax is the subject of the this study. The purpose of the investigation has been to discover the trends of property taxes …

An Analysis Of The Bank Credit Situation In South Dakota, Roy James Smith

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study was planned as a preliminary survey of the short time credit problems of South Dakota. Although considerable information had been gathered concerning long time credits, no investigation had been made in the short time credit field; consequently the study of short time credits was regarded merely as an extension of the previous field of study. An investigation in this field was expected to be valuable since the efficient operation of the farming business depends in many instances on ready access to a cheap supply of short time credit.

Reaction To Price Change By South Dakota Farmers, John Gordon Mcneely

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

South Dakota is one of the newest of the important agricultural states. In 1900, many parts of South Dakota were still in the process of being settled. The increase in the amount of land in crops continued without interruption until the time of the World War. We then find a greater demand for farm products than ever before. Inspired by the double incentive of high prices and helping to win the war, South Dakota and United States agriculture had expanded to unprecedented levels by 1920.