Word: sending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vine, suited his shears to the times. Noting that the vine had waxed during wartime until it bore 3,649,000 employes, he decided that it was too late for mere snipping. His proposal to the Senate: chop off all but 1,000,000 at a single slice, and send them back home...
Dollars, Half Dollars, Quarters. Publisher William A. Townes agreed. Next day the Herald-Journal suggested that its readers send contributions for a Thank You Farm for Gene Atkins. Spartanburg's radio stations joined in the campaign. The response was wonderful. The Herald-Journal got few contributions for as much as $100 but thousands of dollars, half dollars, and quarters flooded in through the mail. In three weeks the people of Spartanburg County donated...
...colonial service for many years, led an undercover drive for independence until 1938, is now consulted by the younger leaders on all major problems. Warn Palim: "We have had 350 years of promises from the Dutch: We want no more of them. If you want to start Armageddon again, send the Dutch back to Indonesia." Asked if he would prefer British colonial administration to Dutch rule, he retorted: "Would you rather be bitten by a cat than...
Under the collar of Moscow censorship, the necks of frustrated American and British newsmen grew hotter & hotter. Most of them were very, very tired of the stalls and rebuffs they met in trying to send out what news they could get under Russia's peculiar "freedom of the press." The New York Times's able, soft-voiced Brooks Atkinson found "humorous stories ... especially difficult to get approved. [They] arouse inordinate suspicion." And it was not that the correspondents were anti-Russian ; one of the complainers was Anna Louise (I Change Worlds) Strong, onetime editor of an English-language...
Much for Little. On top of this the market was "thin," i.e., it needed a comparatively small number of buyers to send a stock up. This was partly due to the Federal Reserve Board boost in margin requirements in July. By putting stock trading close to a cash basis, it cut down the number of day-to-day traders, thus reduced the stock in circulation. Example : in one day, the purchase of 800 of Du Pont's outstanding 11,000,000 shares sent the stock...