Word: order
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past two years he has been a teaching assistant in the department of political science at the university. During his educational career tenBroek won membership in Phi Beta Kappa; Delta Sigma Rho, debating honor society; Pal Sigma Alpha, political science honor society; Order of the Colf, legal honor body, and the Golden Bear and Winged Helmet honor societies...
When Francisco Franco restored his private property, Spain's ex-King Alfonso, exiled in Rome, donned the ecclesiastical-looking robes of the Spanish Military Order, meekly said: "I am a simple soldier, obedient to the orders of Generalissimo Franco...
Looking over its 44,000,000 old-age-insurance accounts, the Social Security Board named its "First 50 Families." First: Smith (418,000). Next in order: Johnson (350,530); Brown...
...machine tool industry, which, like aircraft, averages only $200,000,000 a year of business is getting 20% of its domestic orders from U. S. arms spending and 50% from exports (practically all arms). One of the industry's most promising war babies, Niles-Bement-Pond Co., which has an order backlog of $2,200,000 (big for it but a trifle in the national economy) was meanwhile going in the market for eleven times its 1938 earnings, while investors priced ordinary market leader Chrysler at 16 times 1938 earnings...
Installmentwise: Battleship building takes over four years, cruisers and smaller craft proportionately less. Therefore, the $667,499,000 budgeted for naval building this year cannot be completely put in circulation for three to four years. Bethlehem Steel's order book now contains $71,000,000 of naval business (total unfilled orders: $192,000,000, largest in peacetime history) but, staggered over three or four years, this comes out as only $18-23,000,000 a year, not nearly enough to support the company's overall production much above the rate for the steel industry as a whole...