Word: spending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because the fjords of the rocky Greenland coast are frozen in during the rest of the year, the explorers could spend only two weeks there, sailing from Gloucester last June 25 and returning August...
...CRIMSON policy wavered from a belligerence which decided that Platisburg was as good a place as any for the boys to spend their summer to a surprisingly level-headed pacifism...
...grand-father's name, Dalesford, Connecticut. Captain Dale can no longer run his shoe factory at a profit, and his farm produces next to nothing; seventy-four years old, he wishes to liquidate what few assets he has, move his daughter-in-law and grand-daughters to Florida, and spend his last days peacefully in the sun. When he has made his decision, the embodied ghosts of his progenitors appear to dissuade him, and the result is an extremely poignant and delightful first...
Nevertheless, some 300 of the country's best golfers last week prepared to spend the winter trudging around the "grapefruit circuit," a coast-to-coast series of tournaments sponsored by southern hotels, newspapers and chambers of commerce...
...case, say the chains, any process that gets food to people at cheaper prices means not that higher-priced independents lose business but that more food is consumed, since the average housewife with a limited food budget will spend just so much regardless of prices. Increased sales volume, say the chains, means that crop surpluses threaten less frequently and can be disposed of when they arise, thus stabilizing farm prices...