Word: owe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...losses. In fact, Finance Minister Vincent Auriol announced last week, France's privately controlled railroads- biggest of which are the Paris-Lyons- Mediterranee, Paris-Orleans, Est, Midi and Nord-have a joint capital of only 8,000,000,000 francs (about $352,000,000) but already owe the State 25,000,000,000 (about $1,100,000,000). Only way to clean up this mess, he said, was for the Government to take over every mile of track in the country and 80% of the railroads' stock, try to put the roads on a paying basis by increasing...
...Secretary of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, I feel that this Society owes you a great debt of gratitude. You have timed your article at just the time when we want the people all through America to be informed on cancer. We owe much to LIFE, THE MARCH OF TIME, FORTUNE and TIME for the education of the public which we could not possibly...
...Today you are giving us a party to celebrate the Opening of Greater Plant 2 of the Trane Co.," the advertisement continued. "You have left nothing undone to make us happy in many ways. We owe you and the rest of the Management a lot. . . . We are not working for the Trane Co. We are working with the Trane Co. for a common good-yours and ours. We realize that this procedure may seem unusual, but we'd like to have you know just the way we feel. The very culmination of this message is proof of its sincerity...
...spirit, until they stumble across the scene of a crime. For the easy to look at lady is an ex-chanteuse and now wife of Keats College's brilliant mathematician, Professor Barry. Barry has become a corpse, whereat it is brought to light that many of the Faculty members owe gambling debts to him, while he himself was trying to muscle in on the metropolitan numbers racket. The chief oft the numbers racket is a boy fiend of the professor's wife. Those are the elements; write the story your own way but the plot doesn't really matter...
...TIME, Feb. 8). He had not been back in Chicago three weeks when last week it was announced that Chicago's Law School was henceforth going to practice what the University's president had preached, in an "attempt to fulfill more thoroughly the obligation that law schools owe to the legal profession and to the country. . . . The lawyer and the judge must be much more than well-trained legal technicians...