Word: lot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like to meet him. From what the chairman says, he must be a pretty fine fellow. I'm here to answer the charges of the Communists. The chairman has announced that the issue before you tonight is that of Communism or Fascism. That's a lot of baloney." "Boooo!" "We're ordinary people here in Pittsburgh. We don't want to be bothered by Communists and Fascists. . . ." "Boooo! Boooo!" "I'm Mayor of Pittsburgh. I deserve a little respect. . . ." "Horsefeathers!" Flushed with exasperation, Mayor Mc-Nair cried: "If you weren't so fooled...
...dollar was worth only four new marks. The purpose of the Young Loan, product of 1929's "New Era" school of thought, was that Germany's pledge to pay Reparations over 59 years should be turned into quick money by selling it to the public in small lots. Only the first lot was ever sold. The leading governments of the world urged their central banks to aid firms of the calibre of J. P. Morgan & Co. in disposing of an issue to which Germany pledged...
...Chicago but handy for Wall Streeters is the second largest-Manhattan's old Mercantile Exchange, where chalk marks on the butter board have made many a fortune and where some 450 brokers trade eggs as "Fresh Gathered Firsts," "White Standards," "Dirties." Unit of futures trading is a carload lot-300 tubs of butter, about 19,200 lb.; 400 cases of eggs of 30 dozen each. Margin requirement for a carload of butter...
...matter known only to Fred Mitchell, and you will have to be a mind reader to find out from him. Fred Allan, Drib Braggiotti, Bill Lincoln, and Jerry, Bramwell are the possibilities. Allan has the best record, Braggiotti has promise, but not, finish, Licoin has pitched a lot but not brilliantly, and Bramwell is a widely-heralded ex-schoolboy pitcher who has yet to start in a college game...
...hundred million drachmas ($5,700,-000) is a lot of money to Greeks. To get it from the Chamber of Deputies and "to spend this huge but necessary sum for munitions" was the program last week of gruff General George Kondylis, Minister of War. With a pack of Deputies who would stop at nothing to back him up. Genera! Kondylis strutted into the hall and Zing!-a chair hurtled clear across the Chamber at Alexander Papanastasiou, leader of the Opposition. M. Papanastasiou, an artful dodger, was not hurt until he threw the chair back at the Government with such violence...