Word: meagerly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have only yourself to blame." The Army bought the flimsy plane, appropriated $150 for maintenance, and in 90 minutes the Wrights made "Benny" Foulois the Army's No. 1 pilot. First year's repair bills amounted to $450 of which $300 came out of Pilot Foulois' meager wages. Steadily "Benny" Foulois rose with the new service, landed in France in 1918 commanding the A. E. F. air service. Three years ago he was made Chief of Air Corps. Exulted a high-ranking brother officer: "Benny is 99% for the Air Corps and 1% for himself. That...
...Prix Goncourt, top French literary kudos. Last month in a plane borrowed from a friend in the airmail service he and Capt. Corniglion Molinier, army pilot, took off from Paris for Djibouti, bent on finding the capital of the dusky queen of Biblical legend. Last week's meager reports indicated that the two men flew from Djibouti across the Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb and 900 mi. northeast into the Great Arabian Desert, almost to the Persian Gulf; that they found walled ruins in such a hilly terrain they dared not land and returned non-stop to Djibouti; that...
...other countries? Naturally they want to make money by lending it and with the bond market stagnant and relatively few good bonds available except at low yields, the banks are looking toward 6 per cent, loans as promising them a chance to overcome these last three years of meager return...
...With a "meager" $566,000,000 Treasury balance disappearing at the rate of $30,000,000 a day, Secretary Morgenthau spent 45 minutes talking with President Roosevelt at the White House. Next day, to U. S. investors the Government offered $1,000,000,000 in short term securities: $500,000,000 of 2½%. Treasury Notes maturing in 13½ months, $500,000,000 of 1½% Certificates maturing in 7½ months. It was the biggest piece of new financing ever attempted by the Treasury in time of peace, but it represented only one sixth of the new money...
Last week in the Cosden refinery at Big Spring, George N. Moorse, receiver, faced a meager crowd of 200 to auction off Cosden Oil Co. By court order he was forbidden to take less than $500,000-for a company that had been valued at $40,000,000 in 1929. Joshua Cosden was in the crowd, his attorney and personal friends around him. He had little more to lose if the company passed into other hands though some of his friends would be wiped out. The auctioneer asked for bids. There was silence. Then Josh Cosden said, quietly...