Word: money
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wanted to restore peace. He haughtily produced a sheaf of warehouse receipts, replied with Oxonian accent: "I own more than $800,000 worth of aged whiskey. I am an adventurer. Within a few days I can raise $50,000 or $60,000. I've spent that much money in two or three weeks on a pleasure cruise...
Lurid or political, at week's end the relief situation in Ohio was still critical. Hundreds of tons of foodstuffs from Federal Surplus Commodities Corp. were poured into the State. President Roosevelt approved the expenditure of $1,248,991 for three new WPA projects. Cleveland saw some new money for relief in sight as its City Council approved the sale of $1,200,000 worth of bonds against delinquent taxes. But these were only stopgaps...
...ways & means for the Nazis to take over the Government. Since Jan. 30, 1933, Dr. Frank has been even more occupied writing a Nazi Penal Code, compiling briefs proving the Third Reich's legal rights to its conquests, thinking up new methods to milk the Jews of their money and jobs...
...years of faithful service should thus be rewarded, and her relationship to Hitler remained undefined. . . . She began referring to him as her betrothed. ... He also built for Evi a small house adjoining his own great estate at Berchtesgaden, and made a point of paying for this with his own money instead of ordering it from party funds...
...Chinese counterattacked and fought so furiously that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek gave them a bonus of $20,000, a lot of money in North China...