Word: mounted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regular Budget, ordinary receipts against ordinary expenses, and perhaps have a small surplus. All extraordinary outlays, derived from long-term bond issues instead of current tax receipts, would be set aside for the next generation to pay off in better times. Thus the gross Public Debt would continue to mount as the result of capital investments but the annual Budget would look trim and shipshape...
...skiing team's last race of the season was held on Sunday afternoon over the Mount Washington ski trail when Washburn won the slalom event of the Nansen Ski Club meet, in one minute, 7 2-5 seconds. This victory to a considerable extend atoned for the unsuccessful season hitherto...
...bales. Cotton farmers who agreed to cut their production 30% or more were to be given an option on as many bales of Government cotton as they would otherwise have grown. The option price would be whatever the Secretary paid for the Farm Board holdings. Presumably cotton prices would mount. Before Jan. 1 the cotton planter would instruct the Secretary to sell his optioned bales in the open market and he would collect as his bounty for crop reduction the difference between the option price and the market price. If the market failed to rise, the planter could...
...night last week, a handful of pious folk hastened to North Presbyterian Church. Its lights blazed strangely, excitingly. Inside, in the pulpit, was Rev. Homer Campbell, reading aloud the beginning of the New Testament, the gospel of Matthew. After a time he let a parishioner mount the pulpit, take his place, continue the reading. Day broke, the morning brightened, more worshippers drifted in, and still the reading went on, through Mark, Luke and John, into Acts. Fresh readers spelled tired ones every ten minutes. The words of the New Testament flowed on & on until 7:40 p. m., when...
...Aintree. Dusty Foot's jockey this week was to be his owner's friend, George Herbert ("Pete") Bostwick, ablest gentleman rider in the U. S. Pete Bostwick went to England last autumn planning to ride one of his own steeplechasers in the Grand National, but his likeliest mount, Burglar, trained badly. Last week he accepted the Whitney horse...