Word: flows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Each ticket is priced at 100 francs ($3.92 gold, $6 Roosevelt), thus making the total lottery stake one billion francs. If all this were velvet M. Bonnet could wipe out one-sixth of the deficit at one stroke. Instead 60% of the lottery proceeds must flow back to the public in prizes, 10% will pay expenses, only 30% going to M. Bonnet's Treasury to help pay French War veterans' pensions...
...kind of animate death in which it survives. The third party became in his hands a symbol of perfidy to the politicians, and a testimony to the populace that only by the two party system could the gods be appeased, and water and honey made to flow in the land. But he kept face through it all, kept face by being unique among discredited statesmen in that he appeared really to believe what he was saying, even though he had been saying something very different ten years ago, or last month, or yesterday. He must have believed in himself...
Nicotine, when a person first begins to smoke, makes his touch unsteady and inhibits the flow of saliva, observed Cornell University's Dr. Andrew Leon Winsor. But after the 25th cigaret the effects on saliva cease. But a smoker's hand is never so steady as a non-smoker...
...reluctant toward long term loans, banks have used their funds buying $2,000,000,000 additional government securities. To the convention was read a message from President Roosevelt saying: "I want you to know that we rely on your organization for its co-operation in furthering the free flow of credit so essential to business enterprises." To the convention came long-nosed Eugene Robert Black, governor of the Federal Reserve, a sublimated banker with a sympathetic, bankerish admonition: "We are in a new era. ... I wouldn't ask any bank to make any loan that in the judgment...
...promptly went into an all-day huddle behind locked doors. With its advice & consent Secretary Ickes shot to the Governors of the oil states maximum production quotas, which slashed the U. S. flow more than 300,000 bbl. daily. He banned withdrawal of oil in storage, ordered imports held at the average for the last six months of 1932. But, said Mr. Ickes: "After a final analysis ... I decided we would not attempt to fix prices today. I wanted to see what effect this allocation order would have...