Word: spending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that several hundred million dollars, perhaps a billion of appropriations for various Federal lending agencies, would be canceled. This would not mean a saving in cash so much as a saving in morale, for such organizations have virtually completed their work. The money that they were not going to spend will not be spent...
...then I have heard the last passing Sweet Adeline never earlier than 3 o'clock in the morning. Last week I bought five acres of land on the Lake of the Ozarks. I am building a cabin there and, when it is completed, Mrs. Middlebush and I will spend our weekends down there to be at least 100 miles from the nearest Sweet Adeline...
...Gruenberg advised that children should begin to receive spending money between the ages of 5 and 7, because one "must learn to spend before he can earn." The allowance should be given as something due the child, not as something for which he must work...
...last week disclosed that the U. S. Weather Bureau was making a start on long-range forecasting study with help from university meteorologists. Added he: "They probably won't get anywhere, though. I have an idea that if American Telephone & Telegraph Co. were running this country it would spend $1,000,000 a year on long-range weather forecasting research. We will probably spend...
Chrysler Corp, made $34,975,000 in 1935 as against $9,534,000 in 1934. The company took advantage of its good year to pay off the funded debt inherited from Dodge Bros., to spend $11,000,000 on plant improvement, to give employes a cash bonus of $2,300,000 (on present payrolls, about $40 a man). Chrysler sold 843,000 cars to dealers for $516,800,000; sold about one-fourth of all U. S. passenger cars, one-eighth of all U. S. trucks. Chrysler declared a $1 dividend for the first quarter of 1936, compared...