Word: spending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...price for silver just as the price of wheat would tend to rise if the Government locked up 200,000,000 bu. Moreover the citizens who last week owned 200,000,000 oz. of silver will, after they have given it up, receive $100,000,000 in cash to spend or invest. This will have an inflationary effect like all the other hundreds of millions that the Government is paying shipyards to build battleships, farmers to reduce crops, laborers to erect public works, jobless to stay alive. So the nationalization of silver is inflationary but only a thimbleful...
...recently flew from Nanking to Peiping," said His Holiness. "After that experience I would rather spend many months going overland to Lhasa than attempt to go by air." On his one & only flight, according to the airplane's crew, His Holiness the Panchen Lama was "grievously and continuously air sick." Skeptics doubted last week whether the Panchen Lama was seriously starting for Tibet, expected him to settle down in Inner Mongolia with the funds he has collected...
Next day she went back to her summer home to spend three weeks with her daughters. When she went into the June primary campaign as her husband's stumpster she weighed 120 lb. and when she came out, she weighed 100 lb. After a rest-up during which she hopes to regain some flesh, Nominee Lydia Langer will start campaigning in her own behalf...
...those of last week were unheard of. Before the War the couturiers of Paris were a small, select group catering to the queens and grandes dames of Europe. Even these moneyed customers consulted a couturier only when they wanted dresses for particularly grand occasions and were willing to spend as much as $1,000 for a brocaded ball gown. For everyday clothes?street dresses, afternoon frocks, sportswear? the grandes dames considered the little dressmaker around the corner good enough. But after the War there was little demand for expensive robes-de-style and no money to pay for them...
...Last week its annual report revealed that, like many a great secular corporation in the neighborhood, it had spent last year more than its income. But in the offices of Trinity Corporation on Wall Street no heads were bowed with worry over a deficit of $77,044. Trinity could spend several million dollars a year and still remain the richest church in the U. S., possibly in the world. Its productive real estate holdings in lower Manhattan are assessed this year at $27,879,400; its mortgages and securities at $3,866,239. Its site and graveyard, where clerks...