Word: spending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington late this month goes Alfred E. Smith to address the American Liberty League in a speech that will presumably belabor the New Deal. To Mr. Smith last week went an invitation from Mrs. Roosevelt to spend the night at the White House when he is in town. Mr. Smith, a good tactician, politely excused himself. When the Press noted this byplay, a spokesman for the President announced: "This is not the first time that Mr. Smith had been invited to be an overnight guest at the White House. At least once a year, Mr. Smith has been invited...
...been rendered bankrupt by Huey Long's free bridges, Author Flint let it be known she was in Manhattan for business, not pleasure. "What am I going to do with the money? Well, with five children to educate that is easy to answer. I'm going to spend it for that. No, I'm not going to buy a car." After gathering in her check and her roses she planned to pay a brief visit to Maine relatives, then head for home...
...than ever before. Commented News Pundit Walter Duranty: "Here they are building-mad. From the Arctic Ocean to the Caspian Sea, from the Baltic to the shores of the Pacific, there is such a fury of building as the world never saw. In the coming year the Soviets will spend 32 billion rubles on a building program which, in the valuation of Russian materials and Russian labor, represents between fifteen and twenty billions of dollars...
...Soviet newsreels of beaming buyers rushing in to obtain meat, butter, caviar, cloth, quilts, rubbers, etc. One scoundrelly speculator was caught last week selling for 40 rubles a pair of gloves she had stood in line to buy from the State for 15 rubles, the purchaser preferring not to spend the day in a queue...
...publicity for the steel industry last week was the announcement of Pittsburgh's Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. that it planned a $35,000,000 expansion and improvement program. Fourth largest unit in the industry and the biggest family-owned .steel company in the U. S., Jones & Laughlin will spend $25,000,000 for a strip & sheet mill, enter that market for the first time. Though about $5,000,000 of a proposed $40,000,000 bond issue will be used for refunding, the balance represents one of the biggest bids for new money since the capital market started...