Word: expend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nazi Winter Relief has 10,000,000 needy Germans card indexed. Its staff numbers 1,400 who expend yearly 400,000,000 marks ($160,680,000). To take one item, the Nazi Winter Relief distributed last year gratis 492,000 tons of coal, or one-third of the entire coal produce of the Saar Basin...
...National Emergency Council and member of the National Industry Recovery Board. He was called in as consultant when the Federal Housing Act was being drafted, named FHA director for New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland. Last week President Roosevelt found a higher post on which Charles Edison might expend his zeal, named him Assistant Secretary of the Navy, a job vacant since the death of Henry Latrobe Roosevelt last February...
...known for several years. They are in substance that Japan must have the right to send Japanese troops to wherever in China the Government's troops are fighting Communists; Japan must be permitted to advise, direct and furnish China with whatever capital she is permitted to raise and expend in schemes of Chinese economic development; and officials of the Chinese Government must submit to having at their elbows Japanese advisers like those in the puppet Empire of Manchukuo. This week Ambassador Kawagoe and Foreign Minister Chang were willing to admit publicly at Nanking that they had reached no agreement...
...goitre produces more thyroid hormone than the body requires, observed Dr. Lahey, causes more energy to be dissipated than the body can afford to expend. Immediate source for this energy is sugar in the blood. The blood gets its supply from sugar stored in the liver. When the liver's store runs out, a thyroid crisis is apt to develop. Delirium, vomiting, diarrhea, temperatures of 105 degrees to 106 degrees ensue. Infections such as tonsillitis or abscessed teeth accentuate this condition. Explained Dr. Lahey...
...even true that as Maine goes, so goes Maine. In 1932 it elected a Democratic Governor and two Congressmen in September, went for Hoover in November. But because politicians believe that a September victory has a persuasive effect on voters throughout the land, both Parties regularly expend money and efforts on Maine's State election out of all proportion to its national importance...