Word: purchaseed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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> Added $73,000,000 to this session's record total of $1,800,000,000 already appropriated for U. S. defense. In this authorization was a $10,000,000 item for the purchase of strategic war materials; another $10,000,000 for construction of an air research laboratory, with...
Last week he was named by the Federal Grand Jury as one of the wily five Dink Stovers. As co-owner of both the Roosevelt and Bienville hotels, president of the Board of Docks (main employment centre of New Orleans), commissioner of police and fire, president of the Port of...
One day last week David Eli Lilienthal, boss of Tennessee Valley Authority, came out of the White House with his lips twisted in a grin of satisfaction. He had just told President Roosevelt that there weren't going to be any more big private utilities in the Tennessee Valley...
Yet Wendell Willkie showed every sign of feeling just about as much defeated as a grizzly bear on a rampage. Willkie is one of the few businessmen who, after trading punches with the New Deal, appeared to have as much fight left in him as his New Deal opponent. Fortnight...
A good idea of what is considered high art in the Third Reich today may be deduced from a purchase made by the Führer himself at Munich's Congress two years ago. Reportedly to decorate his bedroom, he paid 15,000 marks for Professor Adolph Ziegler'...