Word: pile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...occurs just when things are looking brightest for Mammy's big family. There is plenty of corn laid by for the mules and blackamoors, fattening hogs grunt in their pen, 25^ cotton has provided a fine pair of blue mules, clothes for everybody and $40 for Christmas. A high pile of tinder-dry stovewood is stacked near the cabin door...
Magistrate Harris was given one of the colored placards?about the size of the pasteboards found in clean shirts?to inspect. He read something harmless about "Help Bring Back Prosperity" and "Don't Let The Money Pile Up." Then he peered at the illustration, one half of which showed an obviously God-fearing white citizen, neatly dressed and ironing something. Then he looked at the other side...
This moratorium was no surprise. Wall Street has expected some sort of Hungarian moratorium for months. The fact that it turned out to be only a "transfer moratorium," with pengo payments continuing to pile up in Hungary, softened the blow. But a blow it was. U. S. bankers have extended and U. S. investors hold roughly 25% of Hungary's short-term credits and bonds. On the total U. S. investment of $179,000,000 the loss or postponement of interest and sinking fund charges during 1932 will approximate...
...bomb exploded at the front door of a minor Machado henchman, Col. José Quero, Chief of the Tax Section of the Cuban Treasury. Nobody was hurt, as usual. The bomb merely blew in Col. Quero's front door, blew his library furniture into a pile of kindling wood, blew out most of the windows in his house. Just a reminder...
...alive with tender associations of childhood, the family life at the fireside, the free out-of-doors, the independence, the security and the pride in possession of the family's own home. . . . Many of our people must live under other conditions. But they never sing songs about a pile of rent receipts...