Word: loads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Here was a real load, but it was not to be fired until the British embargo began. Soviet trade commissars privately hoped it never would. In 1932 British exports to Russia were valued at only ?9,000,000 against ?19,000,000 of Russian exports to Britain...
...great thinkers of our time has to offer. The present age of disillusion is the inevitable outcome of an orgy of so called "scientific" realism. Professor White head shows how narrow and shortsighted is this interpretation of the nature of things; he demonstrates how only a colossal blindness could load one to tenore the fact that Civilization is essentially a humanly-created achievement of harmony amidst the brute Force of Nature; he tells the amazing story of how abstract ideas become men's ideals and how men's ideals become realized in the material forms of the world. In short...
...agricultural mortgages. His land-leasing -domestic - allotment-cotton pool measure now in the Senate's hands is designed to raise commodity prices and thus put cash into the farm industry from the bottom by direct subsidies (see p. 18). His mortgage bill is meant to ease the debt load pressing down on the farm from the top. The two pieces of legislation complemented each other in purpose, would probably be fused into one by Congress...
...learn the reason why: Cleveland's Van Sweringen Brothers had been quietly buying control. The Brothers Van Sweringen put $86,000,000 into MOP securities, paid better than $80 a share for the common stock majority. Last week MOP stock sold at $1.25. Borne down with a weary load of debt and dwindling earnings, MOP subsided into bankruptcy...
Release of the pigeons signalled the climax of the ceremony. While Commander Dresel, his 50 officers & crew stood at salute, Erection Foreman V. W. ("Red") Coffelt ordered "Up ship!" His workmen slacked off their cables, let the Macon's partial load of helium buoy her into the air some five feet. Another command and she was hauled down again, made fast. The Navy's second airship scouting cruiser had taken the air. She will remain in the dock a few weeks more for finishing touches...