Word: pile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, as a result of open-market purchases by the Reserve banks, the system's member bank balance increased $69,000,000 to $2,011,000,000. In effect the Federal Reserve was stacking this pile of $69,000,000 (worth approximately $690,000,000 in new credit) in its front window and inviting member banks to come and get it for "reflationary"' purposes rather than to call loans to raise money...
...earnings were $332,250, second to Sun Beau's all-time record of $356.044. His disposition was eccentric but calm. He liked to roll in sand every day, had a special sand pile to do it in. At the post or when traveling, he was intelligently placid. A great subject of racetrack conversation was the method of Phar Lap's training. In the U. S., horses are given constant rigorous tests for speed. Phar Lap engaged in almost no speed trials at all. He cantered slowly for long distances to improve his stamina, stretch all his muscles slowly...
...France, cafe accounting is done by the printed prices of drinks on the saucers in which the drinks are served. The sum total of his saucer pile is the imbiber's bill...
...times the wingless body turned over in space, then?Crash! Witnesses ran to the wreck, fearful of what they were about to see. A mechanic opened a steel casket in the pile of debris and out stepped M. Sauvant with the smiling grace of a circus acrobat. Later the inventor told-the-world...
...throat. When the old mother comes up the hill she finds Helen poisoned, dying. She has eaten the contraceptive pills she used to prevent more life. The old mother, too tough herself for any hawk's beak to tear, is left squatting on her sorrows as on a pile of cracked and pithless bones...