Word: fining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Master of PWA made a fine witness in his own behalf. He could report that, after allotting before last January 1 all the $965,000,000 given him for fiscal 1939, he still had on hand 2,800 projects approved as feasible and suitable for PWA to undertake. He could report that of all the hundreds of millions loaned by PWA to States and municipalities, only $5,000,000 or 4/5% had been defaulted. Meantime, PWA had made $12,000,000 by selling at premium local bonds put up as loan collateral. Better than 80% of all bond issues proposed...
Pennsylvania's Caputo was in fine form as he administered a neat coat of whitewash to the hapless Lions and tied the one-hit pitching performances record established earlier this spring by Tom Healey. Healey's masterpiece was also chalked up against those same Lions...
Last week Propaganda Minister Goebbels signed a police order, forbidding the Badenweiler march to be played except at functions Fiihrer Hitler is attending, and only in the Führer's presence. Penalty for playing it without Hitler: 150 marks fine or six weeks in a Nazi jail...
...last winter Editor Basil ("Stuffy") Walters of the Minneapolis Star had a fine idea. When King George and Queen Elizabeth reached Winnipeg on their tour of Canada (see p. 23), Minnesota would send a delegation to greet them, thereby stealing a march on the other 47 United States and providing the Star with a good promotion stunt. As the Royal Train neared Winnipeg last week the city was jammed with some 15,000 visitors from nearby States; twoscore U. S. bands were on hand to play God Save The King; a squadron of U. S. Army planes from Minneapolis...
Tell No Tales (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). A fine Negro wake and a good bit by Gene Lockhart as a gambler, stuck in a stale story about a crusading editor (Melvyn Douglas) who confounds the underworld...