Word: parred
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...26° at Buffalo, ?12° at Toledo, ?34° at Sault Ste. Marie, ?10° at Duluth, ?2° at Chicago, ?16° at Detroit. Total death toll from cold: 40. *Biggest year's expenditure for the British dole: £49,000,000 in 1932 ($239,000,000 at par...
Professor Englis' suggestion: let Czechoslovak importers be penalized by forcing them to pay 30% above current rates for the foreign currency they need to buy their stock in trade; and let crowns be sold 30% below par to foreigners who purchase them to buy Czechoslovak goods...
...Reflecting confidence in the dollar and the improving position of debtor corporations, bond trading on the New York Stock Exchange swelled to the largest weekly volume in ten years-$125,000,000 par value. Domestic bonds made the best gains since April. Stocks broke out of their long rut and approached the highs of the July bulge. Heavy trading sent Stock Exchange seats soaring...
...does not act like other drinks; it bowls one over, then replants; it is in no sense a cheap, shoddy imitation; it is a true invention, a step on the road of Progress. It should be introduced to those who do not know it, and made the American drink par excellence, supplanting all the high priced children of repeal, and interior, illegitimate offspring of Prohibition...
...Manchuria as correspondent for the London Times, returned to London to find the town talking about his book. First-rate journalist, Peter Fleming at 26 has no illusions of grandeur about what he writes, obviously enjoys writing it. Typical of him is the cable he sent home from Pará, at the end of his Brazilian adventure: ARRIVE ENGLAND TWENTY-THIRD NO MAIL MONEY LUGGAGE OR REGRETS. Brazilian Adventure is the January choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club...