Word: returning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With 1,000,000 Italians under arms, of whom some 300,000 are in Ethiopia, Dictator Mussolini announced that "to fight the Sanctions Siege in the economic trenches" furloughs of three months will be given to 100,000 soldiers. These will return to their farm or city jobs, on call at 24 hours notice to spring back to arms...
...mansions in all London is historic Londonderry House. There Mr. MacDonald, after he was considered by the Labor Party to have betrayed it and gone over to Pride & Privilege, found a new home so warm and bright with the glamor of Mayfair that the least he could do in return as Prime Minister, was to take Edith's husband into the Cabinet (TIME...
...London dressmakers estimated that 1,000 of the richest women in the realm will fail to buy the new gowns they would have worn to Londonderry House, with a consequent loss "to the trade" which they set roundly at $500,000. Baffled by Baldwin, Lady Londonderry was expected to return to her pen which has already produced such dainty books as The Magic Inkpot...
Since 1907 the Exchange has spent $21,600,000 advertising its brand name Sunkist. Last year its advertising budget included $1,450,000 for oranges, $581,000 for lemons, $34,600 for grapefruit. Average gross return to growers was about $2.30 per box. For advertising the Exchange assessed each grower 5? per box for oranges, 3? for grapefruit (Florida dominates that market), 10? for lemons, of which there is a perennial surplus. All other Exchange services cost 5.31? per box, and including those of district exchanges (less than 1? per box) total marketing and advertising charges amounted to about...
...whose family had won its title for military service in the Seven Years War. Disliking the university, Marx signed up for lectures which he did not attend, fitfully studied a remarkable variety of subjects, tried to found a new philosophy of law, drafted a new metaphysical system, yearned to return to Trier to be married. Although he did not live extravagantly, he spent more money than the sons of rich men, since "everyone swindled him" and he never learned to keep track of his money. His father, who discouraged his ambitions to be a poet or an original thinker, wrote...