Word: equalled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opened a general store, made $1,300,000 out of a $64 grubstake to two German prospectors who struck silver. He bought the Matchless silver mine in Leadville, Colo, for $117,000, made $10,000,000 out of it. Coarse and lusty, he spent his money with equal pleasure on a million-dollar opera house in Denver, a $1,000 silk & lace nightshirt with gold buttons. Dazzled by his wealth was the belle of the mining camps. "Baby Doe," daughter of an Oshkosh, Wis. tailor. When the great Tabor began eyeing her blonde loveliness, she quickly cast off her impecunious...
...Panamas and Consols are the only Government bonds with the so-called circulation privilege. When a bank wants to issue its own notes, it must deposit in Washington approximately an equal amount on those bonds and no others.* Thus by calling the Panamas and Consols the Government will eliminate National Bank notes from circulation-something contemplated by the founders of the Federal Reserve...
...best team Yale has produced in many years defeated the best team Harvard has developed in an equal period last Saturday in the Garden, but the hockey situation for the coming years looks decidedly favorable for the Crimson. Yale is graduating nine of her varsity team while Harvard is only losing five...
...workers and farmers--some 15,000,000--above eighteen years of age, unemployed through no fault of their own. In case average local wages were higher than $10 a week--and in many communities this would certainly be true-- all unemployed would receive as dole an amount equal to average local wages. Taxation necessary to provide the $12,000,000,000 yearly to finance this Act would be raised by levying a higher tax on inheritance, gifts, individual and corporation incomes of $5,000 a year and over...
...Though the commuters have an equal opportunity for "a formal academic education," for them "the University makes no . . . . provisions to encourage . . . . the development of the intangible qualities of character and personality which appear a natural result of the residential environment...