Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story was soon confirmed by Col. H. Norman Schwarzkopf of the New Jersey State Police on Col. Lindbergh's behalf: "A ransom of $50,000 was paid to the kidnappers, properly identified as such, upon their agreement to notify Col. Lindbergh as to the exact whereabouts of the baby. The baby was not found at the point designated. Several days were permitted to elapse to give the kidnappers every opportunity to keep their agreement...
...throbbed with the madding, ignominious fact that he had been "captured." Major Kuga wished to commit harakiri-to disembowel himself with his sword-but his own sword had been broken in the battle, an aggravation of his shame. Brooding and white-lipped Major Kuga walked last week to the exact spot on Shanghai's battlefield where the hand grenade had knocked him unconscious. There, putting his service pistol to his head, he fired one well-aimed shot. "The suicide of Major Kuga." said the Japanese military spokesman at Shanghai, "has aroused the greatest sympathy and admiration in Japanese military...
...general frankness a wide range is covered. Eastman Kodak used to report only earnings, now reveals depreciation charges but not sales. The exact nature of Allied Chemical's huge investment account is hidden in the phrase "U. S. Government and other marketable securities." Reynolds Tobacco has described its investment in its own stock as "investment in noncompetitive companies." The railroads, because of the prescribed I. C. . accounting system, are models of honesty. Such leading companies as General Motors and U. S. Steel give enough data for anyone except a super-statistician. While some companies may discontinue reporting sales, businessmen...
...bringing out 500 copies daily of a sheetlet called the Commercial Chronicle. (Last week he had forgotten its name.) Around the A. P. membership and a skeleton staff, Publisher Thomason built his tabloid Daily Times. So friendly were he and the Tribune that he made his paper an exact copy of the Tribune's lusty Manhattan tabloid brother, the Daily News...
...difficult to ascertain the exact physical and mental handicaps undergone by the average undergraduate working for his living. Certainly he encounters fewer difficulties than if he were struggling alone; here he finds others interested in his own cause. True, undergraduate self-support means addition to the effort of maintenance to the effort of education, which naturally lends to decrease efficiency of education but given greater appreciation of its value. But self-supporting groups composed of only the so-called bright would signalize the failure of democratic education...