Word: money
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...longer will every sitting of a German prize court rouse the American people to a state of frenzy, for our ships will be kept out of dangerous seas. The "cash" ruling will enable the government to escape acting as a collection agency for big banks that loan money to the Allies. Unrestricted submarine warfare, the immediate occasion of our going to war against Germany in 1917, cannot now affect us. A good foundation for our neutrality has been laid; now comes the time to build the house...
Dudley will have a chance to climb back into a first place tie with Winthrop when the Commuters meet Lowell this afternoon, but the Bellboys will give the undefeated Dudley men a tougher fight or their money than any team they have played previously, so an upset is quite possible...
...songwriter cannot make as much money out of a war as a munitions manufacturer. But if he hits the jackpot, he can do pretty well. (Songwriter George M. Cohan's Over There sold 2,000,000 copies during World War I.) Soldiers are choosy about their songs. By last week British tunesmiths had turned out a tremendous stack of war songs, were waiting to see which ones would click. Most of these musical munitions were rousing, morale-boosting ditties (The Handsome Territorial, The Girl Who Loves a Soldier, We Must All Stick Together, Here We Go Again...
...TIME's Index, derived from money and banking figures, reports not on business volume but on changes in underlying conditions likely to affect the volume of U. S. business...
Editorially, the Bruin pointed out that "The only persons who might conceivably be opposed to the plan are those who tutor students for money on this campus. The effective operation of this idea will undoubtedly cripple the business of such tutors who will be faced with competition which works gratis...