Word: sevenths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...marks ($281,610,000) to be raised by the sale of 4% treasury notes with an average maturity of twelve years. This was the third such loan this year, the tenth since Economics Minister Schacht began to monopolize the capital market in 1935. Although only one-seventh was subscribed by week's end, the loan when completed will bring the Reich's borrowing during the past two years to a total of 6,518,000,000 marks ($2,622,191,400), a sizable sum for Henry Morgenthau Jr., colossal for Dr. Schacht...
...spite of her un orthodox forehand style, 6-2. Then Helen Jacobs got her famous chop working, sent her opponent an endless procession of floating teasers, worried the second set away from her, 6-4, ran out the third, 6-2, for the match and the seventh U. S. Wightman Cup victory...
Last week the League announced that it had received the seventh such letter. It was from Miguel Angel Araujo, Foreign Minister of El Salvador, who wrote that "reasons of an economic nature compel my Government to withdraw...
...Entering its seventh week last week was a strike called by C. I. O'.'s Industrial Union of Marine & Shipbuilding Workers of America in the shipyards of the Port of New York, involving some 15,000 workers. After a shutdown the shipyards began to reopen, bringing almost daily picket line clashes between strikers, workers and police. Cited by the National Labor Relations Board, big Todd Shipyards Corp. had been hailed before a trial examiner, who cried in exasperation last week that the hearings had broken "all records" for perjury. Picketing injunctions had been flagrantly violated. Though severely stoned...
...That the seventh Pleiad is indeed a variable star was reported last week by Harvard Observatory. The cluster is draped in a veil of diffuse nebulosity which may vary the brightness of certain stars by interposing streamers of varying thicknesses. Observations by Dr. William Alexander Calder disclosed that in a year the seventh Pleiad, now called Pleïone, had diminished by one-sixth of a magnitude in brightness. It cannot have been decreasing for very long at this rate, otherwise it would have been the brightest star in the sky less than a half century ago. But the fact...