Word: spending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Obliged by Circumstances." Neville Chamberlain went away from London to spend his first week end as Prime Minister in the official country residence Chequers, and the Non-intervention Committee went...
...rambling clubhouse, traipsed over the 34-acre island on which it stands and viewed the Club's 136-acre duck-hunting preserve. After a jolly luncheon at the clubhouse, they returned to Annapolis with a solid first-hand knowledge of the place where most of their husbands will spend this week end, for Franklin Roosevelt last week made an extraordinary decision...
...floor and delivered a philippic upon "economic blunders, if not economic crimes, perpetrated by Congress in the name of starving people who never starved and freezing people who never froze." Senator Borah chimed in with a warning that recent Supreme Court decisions give Congress virtually unlimited power to spend money for any purpose "and if the brakes are not put on here there is no place they can be put on." When the roll calls were taken, however, the Byrnes amendment was defeated 58 to 25, the Robinson amendment 49 to 34, but among those 34 were 22 Democrats...
Seidman & Seidman's figures on comparative sales of different types of furniture showed that U. S. citizens were inclined to spend their first furniture money on upholstered chairs, studio couches, etc., putting makers of upholstered furniture in the black ink a year ahead of the industry as a whole. Their aggregate operating profit of 3.07% on sales in 1935 was more than doubled last year. Second best showing was made by manufacturers of novelty and specialty goods, who also made an operating profit, 2.15% in 1935, increased it to 4.86% in 1936. Laggards were the manufacturers of "case goods...
Later he was looking at himself in the bathroom mirror. "You know, Vaggy, you're not a bad looking guy. Right now all spruced up like that you remind me of the Yard. Funny, they spend all Spring getting that Yard fixed up for the graduates to see when they come back. Why are the alumni so important at Commencement" Perhaps, it's because they're going to give us some money...