Word: spending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nearly every week the Soviet Foreign Office induces one or more U. S. correspondents in Moscow to cable Comrade Litvinoff's further insistence that Mr. Roosevelt promised him a "loan," whereas the White House insists that the President promised a "credit" which Litvinoff agreed the Kremlin would spend on U. S. goods but which the Kremlin now rejects...
...School students will tear themselves away from their ponderous tomes and spend an evening of frivolous enjoyment on March 22, when Ken Reeves and his orchestra will supply the music for a dance at the Hotel Continental...
...pass eventually to save their own faces. Invited to debate, Congressmen can get their grievances against NRA out of their systems without taking a slap at the President. The widespread Congressional urge to "investigate" this prime piece of New Deal experimentation from a dozen different angles will doubtless spend itself harmlessly in the protracted House and Senate hearings. Then two or three months from now the White House will take weary committees in hand and subtly devise just the kind of NRA bill the President really wants...
...Hungary's capital, did the rounds of Pest on the flat east bank of the Danube, then the rounds of Buda on its hill on the west bank. All Budapest joined the usual peekaboo chase after H. R. H.-all except the rickety old Hungarian aristocrats who spend their days steaming stark naked in the hot springs pool of Gellert's Municipal Baths in Buda.* There, far from the grand hotels and cafés of Pest where Edward was disporting himself, the old Magyars went on stewing in their own sweat, with an occasional spot...
Paced by smaller units like Jones & Laughlin, Republic and Northwestern Barb Wire Co., which had laid their 1935 plans long ago, U. S. Steel's directors authorized its subsidiaries to spend $47,000,000 for new construction and equipment within the year. And Bethlehem Steel announced a new $20,000,000 hot and cold rolled strip plant at its Lackawanna works near Buffalo...