Word: portions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the U. S. is bound to figure financially in any Jewish territorial solution anyway, and since Mexico owes us a mounting debt for recent land confiscations, and since a good portion of Lower California is already owned by U. S. citizens (and therefore presumably confiscatable), therefore Mexico's debt might be applied against the purchase price of this territory which we could then present to the Jewish people...
...changed the farm picture only for flue-cured tobacco.* By voting No, tobaccomen rejected Secretary Wallace's offer to fix a rigid quota for each seller, levy a penalty of one half the market price for excess sales. By voting No, they also ruled out loans on whatever portion of their 1939 crop they may keep off the market. Unaffected by the Election was the "voluntary" half of the farm program-acreage restriction which growers of all three crops make in return for soil conservation payments and other cash benefits...
Rose Bowl. Biggest portion of gravy is in the Rose Bowl. Chosen to share this year's gate receipts (about $300,000 split three ways among the contestants and the sponsor) are Southern California and Duke University. Last week Southern California made this game trebly exciting by outplaying Notre Dame...
President Roosevelt himself said, "Because these papers relate to so many periods and activities which are not connected with my service in the Federal Government, I do not wish to break them up, leaving a portion of them to the National Archives and dividing the rest between the State of New York Archives, the New York State Historical Society, the Harvard College Library, the Duchess County Historical Society...
...Arctic admirers caused consternation in the Square when they calmly walked into a cafeteria barefooted and with a pair of swimming trunks, but they faced the rabble bravely and went in to eat their daily portion of ice cream...