Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bigger than anticipated) of a $418,000,000 deficit for fiscal 1938 when the Budget was supposed to balance. Primary cause of these deficits is the failure of actual revenue to come up to the expectations of last January. This meant that instead of the public debt reaching a peak of $35,026,000,000 on July 1 and then receding, it would kee on going up and reach $35,750,000,000 by a year from July. It meant that a Budge balance was still around the corner...
Lectures and movies of Nanda Devi were shown after the dinner. Nanda Devi is the Indian peak ascended by the club last summer. In the approaching vacation the scalers plan to tackle the Canadian Rockies, in preparation for which practice in local quarries will continue through the Spring...
...hollow-eyed Pola Negri, oldtime cinemactress whose professional peak was reached in 1920 in Passion, found herself in serious difficulties with peppery little German Minister for Propaganda Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels. In the belief that Cinemactress Negri (real name: Appollonia Chalupec) was a Polish Jewess, Minister Goebbels refused her permission to act in Germany. Suddenly this order was overruled by the Führer himself. "Investigation," read the official communiqué, "instituted by the Reichsführer has established that Pola Negri is Polish and therefore Aryan" (TIME, Feb. 11, 1935). Pink with pleasure, Actress Negri cried: "The whole world...
...seemed as far off as ever. Most critical battle of the week was to the southeast of Bilbao, the Basque capital which Rightist General Emilio Mola was determined to storm or starve out. Backward and forward swung the bloody struggle for the heights of Saibi Peak guarding the plains five miles from the key city of Durango. Besieged by land, blockaded by sea Bilbao's war-swollen population of 350,000 was reported eating cats and seagulls. Gritting his teeth, Basque President José Antonio de Aguirre y Lecube declared: "We are in good shape...
...tell them a story of your own country and show them something new. I say, "So I've heard" it's like this. But by now I wager it's a town on a mountain top with an Otis escalator going up, a Grand Hotel on the highest peak, the American Express on Main Street and Haig and Haig on every other bill board. And you'll meet an Oxford student at every bar, a Harvard man in every cinema and an American no matter where you are. And sometimes you're awfully glad...