Word: lent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...farm homes in the U. S., today nearly 20% are wired for electricity. That is almost twice as many as were electrified when REA started operations in 1935. Since then REA has lent $90,000,000 to nearly 400 cooperatives, helped build some 84,000 miles of lines, which it strings at a cost not exceeding $1,000 a mile. Private utilities had been charging customers from $1,500 to $2,500 a mile for stringing lines to their doors. In 20 projects, notably The Thumb Cooperative, REA has also financed the building of generators, but other projects buy their...
...with President Roosevelt about his cherished dream of a road to Alaska. Returning to find his newly finished post office occupied by a noisy rabble, he failed to impress them by announcing that "this sort of thing must stop." The Dominion Government asked Vancouver city authorities to take action, lent a detachment of red-tunicked Royal Canadian Mounted Police to assist the khaki-clad provincial police and blue-coated city constables in an evacuation. Premier Pattullo gave the sit-downers until 4 a.m. June 19 to move...
...Duke & Duchess of Windsor celebrated the Duchess' 42nd birthday off the Riviera aboard the yacht Frixos, lent them for the occasion by their friend "Nicky" Zographos, head of the Greek gambling syndicate in Monte Carlo, day after moving into their newly redecorated Chateau de la Cröe. Four days later they celebrated the Duke's 44th birthday at home...
...Damoutte, who said she hated to have to ask Widow Becker for at least part of the 700 francs she had lent her, died...
...gambler, Company started in 1847. Very good name; is making a small amount of money at present. Assets over $150,000 but the owner 63 years old has lent the company money and wants it back. If you can invest three or four thousand and pay him back out of incresaed profits (get that--pay him back your money) the company is yours in time. If you can't you are probably out your investment and job too. (That's logical...