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...basic idea was to set up a notion counter displaying securities for every purse and taste-transfera-ble bonds for banks, temporarily nontransferable ones for insurance companies, permanently nontransferable ones for individuals; stamps for 10?, bonds for $10,000. The catch in the scheme was how to keep up a steady selling rate of $2 billions a month. The great banks and insurance companies, few in number, buy in huge blocks up to $100 millions at a time; then they sit back and wait for new funds to accumulate. But if sales of war bonds are to be no more...
...senses of the word." ("A 'numero' . . . was one degree lower than a 'type,' but less severe than 'individu.' ") Armed with a butcher's knife and fortified with three liters of red wine (her daily quota: five liters), Therese was formida ble. She endeared herself to the local wags by surreptitiously serving the unpopular Navet "chat farci" -stuffed...
...library will be equipped with ble books and manuscripts more easily available for study than at present, and will also provide greatly improved facilities for the public showing of important literary collections, according to Jackson, who said that "the library will be open to every accredited student and visiting scholar...
Added General Asensio as he sat with the other Militia officers in arm chairs placed in the street behind a barricade of sandbags: "We of the Government are taking great care to keep losses as low as possi- ble. They are now desperate men in the Alcázar fighting for their lives without food, water, or sleep-they'll have to surrender shortly...
...first thing I knew about the trou ble," said Keeper Bjork afterward, "was when I heard Ed swear-and then I looked over that way. Wally had him on the ground with his left front foot on him and was trumpeting and stamping. He stamped and kicked at Ed and then dug his one tusk deep into Ed's body and jerked his head upward-ripping and slashing. He didn't lift Ed off the ground, but just gored him with a vicious ripping motion...