Word: crediting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There is no particular credit due me in this matter. I am simply another of those $1-a-year...
Sixty white oxen drew this country's first steam mill across the continent, to Sutter. Shiploads of firearms, seeds, implements, nails, clothing rounded the Horn annually, for Sutter. The world's soundest banks were pleased to extend credit to America's biggest landlord, Johann August Sutter...
...fought (1848), Sutter kept his realm neutral and intact; even increased it by a tract "24 hours square." California was ceded and he smoked in peaceful reverie, thinking at last of his wife, his children, his oldtime comrades.... He sent for her and them, begging forgiveness with letters of credit which were but footnotes of his prosperity. While waiting for them, he busied himself with a new sawmill up on Sutter's Creek...
...satisfied with wondering at the alignment itself. Are England and Italy contemplating commercial collaboration? Is Mussolini's imperial ambition leading him to league with an empire? On the other hand, what now brings France and Germany together.? The clue here is significant. Germany has railroads to sell for credit in reparations. France has willing friends to bid for these, friends who foresee French preeminence in Germany's richest industrial regions whence must come coal for French iron works in Lorraine...
...Several young wives and not a few studious unmarried women had been accepted. About one-third of the passenger list was composed of this year's college freshmen whose parents had considered that their young would make more of a land university after literally seeing the world. Full credit for courses passed awaited the voyagers when they should return to stationary education. Instead of frivolous weekends in large U. S. cities, they would have spent their spare time in trips ashore, under watchful and instructive supervision, to foreign banks, temples, schools, playgrounds, parliaments. All along their course, ministries...