Word: lumping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Post's civic exploits. Every year the available hunters of Denver go off to the mountains in quest of jackrabbits, and these, in astronomical quantities, are dumped in front of the Post Building for the usufruct of the poor. The Post has always sold coal--its slogan "An Extra Lump With Every Ton" was in Bonfil's best vein. When Denver's physicians announced that most of the jackrabbits had tularemia, and were inedible, when the city sealer declared that every ton of Post coal was short-weight, Mr. Bonfils refused even to be abashed. Did not every paper chute...
Result of the Acheson-Leith-Ross conversations were to be transmitted play-by-play to the President. He was expected to ask no less than a lump payment of 50% of the debt. The British talked of offering 10%. Equally important were to be the discussions as to what kind of dollars and pounds any settlement was to be made in. Both sides were hopeful that the (See col. 3) two great off-gold nations, sitting head-to-head by themselves, might come nearer to an understanding on international currency stabilization than was possible at the many-tongued London Conference...
Under the Empire's present debt agreement Britain is scheduled to pay the U. S. roughly $11,000,000,000 in annuities running until 1984. The lump sum Sir Frederick reputedly has in mind is $1,000,000,000. If he finds that Wall Street cannot float so large a bond issue, the lump may have to be smaller. "The best solution, of course," correspondents were told by a candid Exchequer functionary, "would be cancellation of the entire debt...
Since only Congress can swallow or reject the British lump, and since Congress is not to meet until January, Sir Frederick and President Roosevelt face the pressing issue of what to do on Dec. 15, when a British annuity payment of $117,000,000 falls due. On the previous annuity date, last June 15, the President accepted a British "token payment" of $10,000,000 in lieu of the $76,000,000 then due. In London last week City financiers were confident that Sir Frederick will offer a "much larger token" on Dec. 15, hoping thus to put Congress...
...Majesty is chocolate brown and waddles like an ambulating lump of cocoa butter, but fatness is a mark of aristocratic birth in Abyssinia. Mother of six and a voracious reader of Western classics, she heaved herself from a special train onto Jerusalem's railroad station platform while a British band blared "The Lion of the Tribe of Judah is Victor!" -Abyssinia's national anthem. No pagan but a Coptic Christian, Her Majesty had come not only to visit Christian shrines but also to dedicate an Abyssinian Coptic Christian Church. Jerusalem's handful of Abyssinians excitedly waved date...