Word: sixteen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...France's Foreign Minister, Laval instigated the Franco-Soviet Pact of 1935 which brought French businessmen a billion francs in contracts. Sixteen months in advance he told Mussolini it would be all right to rape Ethiopia, and later set his seal on the deed in the Hoare-Laval Pact with Britain which sanctioned Ethiopia's enslavement...
Washington had better luck than California. Sixteen colleges and universities (among them Chicago, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio State, Iowa State, Oberlin) agreed to give haven to Washington's Nisei. Of the 32 queried by Dr. Sproul, 14 replied they were "interested" (the rest said No or were noncommittal). And when Dr. Sproul announced the names of the 14, the outcry from their States was so fierce that three (Idaho, Kansas, Arkansas A. & M.) quickly changed their minds...
...Sixteen Fancy Dives...
...past eight years the Fund has annually enrolled more contributors than any other in America. More than 24,000 individual alumni have contributed to it, two-thirds of the living graduates of the College, and they have given in sixteen years over $3,100.000. Last year alone 11,504 alumni were contributors...
...ease this shipping situation, sixteen ore carriers are being built for the Maritime Commission, five for Pittsburgh S.S. Co. Detroit's twelve automobile carriers (no longer needed) may be rebuilt to carry ore, and ships formerly handling wheat may be switched to the dusty, dirty ore trade. If they are, Northwestern elevators, already jammed with last year's wheat carry-over, will have little room to store this season's wheat harvest...