Word: sixths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years bringing it down to $16,000,000,000 in 1930. Since then $5,000,000,000 has been added, by an unbalanced Budget and depression expenditures. On March 31 the debt stood at $21,362,000,000. Of this amount just about two-thirds is in bonds, one-sixth in notes due during the next five years, one-sixth in certificates and bills due in a few months time. To have so much of the debt due so soon-upwards of $3,000,000,000 in short-term debt-is not a wholly desirable condition, but during the last...
...passed five men. Neel, Berger, and Bramlette walked to fill the bases, and Purnell hit a long fly to score Neel. Getting another tally in the fourth on Knell's walk and hits by Neel and Bramlette, the Tigers came back with a three-run rally in the sixth to end the day's scoring...
...Becher's Brook, sixth and most famed of the 30 prodigious jumps that make the Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree the hardest race in the world, the field began to dwindle last week. Youtell went down first, then Society and one of the favorites, Heartbreak Hill. Jock Whitney's Dusty Foot took off too soon and his rider, George Herbert ("Pete") Bostwick. turned a double somersault, got up with his face cut.* The part of the 250,000 crowd that was in the grandstand lost the field as it moved around toward the Canal Turn. Not until...
...horse named Apostasy. Apostasy's and Heartbreak Hill's jockeys crossed the finish together last of all, both riding Dusty Foot whom they had caught in open country. In the largest finishing field on record (18 out of 34 starters) Forbra, last year's winner, was sixth; Trouble Maker, the only U. S.-bred horse in the race, 15th. One of the few respects in which last week's Grand National ran true to form was that the winner, at 25-10-1, was an outsider...
...Maribel Vinson, pretty Radcliffe senior from Winchester, Mass., and Roger F. Turner of the Skating Club of Boston: U. S. figure skating championships, each for the sixth time in a row; at New Haven, Conn...