Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spokesman Smith returned to the job of extracting cash for New York tunnels, bridges and causeways, the R. F. C. corridor crackled with excited feminine comment: "Simply grand! What a man! A honey! A peach! And wasn't that little green bow tie cute...
...Lausanne Pacts (unratified) Germany is due to pay the Allies $700,000,000. This, plus $400,000,000 owed by France on her purchase of U. S. War stocks, totals $1,100,000.000. Last week London financiers threw in another $400,000,000 for good measure, took the grand total $1,500.000,000 as their "lump sum." The U. S. they opined (and in some cases wagered) will not collect more than that from all the Allied Powers. Any Anglo-U. S. settlement, they thought, will have to be made provisional until France comes to debt terms with...
...raise the necessary $50,000,000 the bonds sold last week had attached to them certain peculiar features. Holders of bonds with serial numbers which turn out to be lucky will receive, during the next five years, prizes totaling $6,500,000 and each year there will be a grand prize of $50,000. Nominally 4½% bonds, they were offered and oversubscribed at 91, thus making them 5% bonds in effect...
...Manhattan, of 23 men picked for the February grand jury seven were named Levy...
...Amelia Earhart Putnam were among them. Her big offices on Fifth Avenue were always busy. Just before the stockmarket crash, as a member of the Committee on the Financial Education of Women she headed a thrift exposition in Manhattan. Last week Edna V. O'Brien was arrested for grand larceny...