Word: equipment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the Council debate French Delegate Joseph Paul-Boncour scathingly declared that the shipment was sufficiently "practical" to equip 90 companies of machine gunners. In fine, the Council was too water-hearted to denounce Italy for treaty breaking, lest Signor Mussolini should huffily withdraw his Great Power from membership in the League. General Tanczos, representing unrepentant Hungary, last week, said: "We are so well content that there is really nothing...
...Real estate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$156,579,172 $143,293,982 Mach. equip., etc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144,821,593 137,615,082 Inventory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72,177,674 88,074,988 Cash, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367,616,872 413,709,361 Deferred charges. . . . . . . . . . . . . .860,790 1,514,667 Total...
...Yuan's onetime sixth and favorite concubine, now a very aged lady of august consequence and immense wealth. With her approval, Yuan Shih-kai's eldest son, Yuan Keh-cheng, took charge of the $2,000,000 fund and announced that he would at once raise and equip two brigades of troops to fight against Feng Yu-hsiang, despoiler of tombs...
...gave to the town of Warren $100,000 to build a library and, with his brother, 150 acres of land to build a park & playground. The largest of all his numerous donations was one of $1,000,000 to Lehigh University, alma mater, with which to construct and equip laboratories. Sixteen months ago illness drove James Packard to the ho pital. He stayed there sixteen months, in the same room. Then he died...
...their honking, droning, whizzing, roaring escort ran down and hurt two women in the crowded Loop district. Last week also, Prince Wilhelm of Sweden visited Chicago. Before arriving he begged the Chicago police not to insist upon a honking, droning, whizzing, roaring escort for him; not, at least, to equip the escort with sirens. Prince Wilhelm said that he would find "such a racket very annoying." So the Chicago City Council, which has listened with pride to earsplitting, mile-a-minute escorts for Roman Catholic cardinals at the Eucharistic Congress, Queen Marie of Rumania, fisticuffers, gas merchants and almost every...