Word: spend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prosperous U.S. So far, said Fund Director Roche, the money has been barely enough to attack the "backlog of human misery [that] has been rolled up through decades" in the mining country. In the past twelve months, she said, the fund took in $90,891,905, but had to spend $14 million more than it took...
...fruit stand, which boasted 15 varieties of fruit and a trimming of laurel and myrtle leaves. Grazie Ceci, who is 90 years old and who shares three rooms in Bologna alley with 22 relatives and acquaintances, won a 1,000 lira prize as the oldest grandmother, announced she would spend a good part of it on wine...
Margaret Truman laid aside her pitch pipes and throat sprays to spend a "restful weekend" in Newport, R.I. with Madame Minister Perle Mesta, attended an American Legion carnival and rode the Ferris wheel with her hostess...
...advertisement in 1919, in his own New Appeal, Haldeman-Julius got 5,000 replies. When he took a $150 flyer in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, he got back $1,000 in orders. Later, misplacing the copy for another ad, he dashed off an eye-catching substitute: WOULD YOU SPEND $2.98 FOR A COLLEGE EDUCATION? Thousands of customers answered...
...last week said that it would spend $657,000 to finance the purchase of 7,500 U.S. mules. From New Orleans, the mules will be shipped in lots of about 900 to Greece, to aid the recovery of that nation's ravaged agriculture. This quiet announcement was the final settlement of an international war which had raged for a year among some of the world's shrewdest mule skinners...