Word: sixths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tons per year, cocoanut oil to 200,000 tons, cordage fibre to 3,000,000 Ib. To give Filipinos a taste of the tariff, collection of an island export tax equal to 5% of the U. S. tariff rate on different goods will begin in the sixth year, rise to 25% in the tenth. On July 4 following the ten-year period the President will proclaim the Philippines a sovereign commonwealth and the U. S. will withdraw all civil (but not military) authority...
...Plan called for pig iron at an average rate of 25.000 tons per day. Actual production is 17,000 tons. Even so-due partly to Russian progress under the Plan and partly to backsliding in other nations-Russia has climbed among pig iron producers from sixth to second place. In oil she has mounted from third place to second, in coal from sixth to third, in machine building from fourth to second, in production of electric energy from eighth to third-yet in none of these categories except oil has Russia fulfilled her Plan...
Since the current British budget is based on estimated receipts of ?764,275,000, Mother Britain is now spending nearly one-sixth of her current tax revenue on seeing her needy through. ¶Voted with maximum grumbling from all parties a loan of 100,000,000 schillings ($14,000,000) to the Government of Austria. "Throwing good money after bad, that's what we're doing!" cried Conservative Sir Arthur Samuel, M. P., despite a firm reminder from Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, also Conservative, that the 100,000,000 schillings are only Britain's share...
Focus of U. S. theatrical attention last week was a great grey pylon which strikes the earth where Manhattan's Sixth Avenue Elevated fences off 50th and 51st Streets -the Radio City Music Hall of Rockefeller Center. Wags had already dubbed the locale of the new theatre, whose 6,200 seats make it the world's largest, the "Rothafeller" Center, for celebrated Showman Samuel Lionel O'Roxy") Rothafel was to produce this week-and as many weeks thereafter as he could make the $85,000 "nut" (overhead)-a monster variety bill twice daily...
...this time the Crimson had caught its second wind, and started off the fourth period with a rush, scoring four times in rapid succession, and, for a while, tying the Greenshirts. The fifth chukker saw the hardest riding of the evening, with one point scored by the Varsity. The sixth and last meeting was tight and studied, each team striving to shove home the deciding point and at the same time ride off its opponent...