Word: spending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Housewives had to spend hours daily standing in line for supplies. It was no longer possible to entertain at meals, unless the guests brought their own food. At Berlin's big Kurfurstendamm sidewalk cafes, a few brave souls occasionally sat in the dark with their beer, but most Berliners spent their evenings at home, trying to read by carefully shaded lights...
...Handling of tissues with fingers cannot be as facile, gentle or safe as handling with properly designed, delicate instruments." A surgeon should spend his life in "a constant search for better instruments until he emerges finally as an artist, not an artisan." Blood transfusion is "essential in certain disorders, and most valuable in preparing the patient for a major ordeal; but its use following a surgical performance is at least suggestive that a more careful technique would have made this unnecessary...
...where Admiral Land is determined to build two new shipyards, the rush to restore obsolete capacity was wildest. Western Pipe and Steel, a small steel fabricator which did only a $5,336,034 gross business last year, booked a $10,635,000 order from Chairman-Admiral Land, began to spend $400,000 to build four new ways, re-dredge the channel at its long unused yard in South San Francisco. At Los Angeles, Consolidated Steel, another small steel fabricator ordinarily happy with $4,000,000 of business, grabbed $7,560,000 of shipbuilding business, began renovating the old Craig yard...
...great U. S. films. When Nazis burned the book by Erich Maria Remarque from which the picture was made, the film was revived, again stirred U. S. audiences with its simple record of why men go to war, how they kill, how those who survive spend the time until their turn comes...
...Japanese sellers began to feel the pinch. Since Japan had only a pipsqueak gold hoard (published reserve then $261,000,000, now close to zero), Japan's merchant salesmen had to sell more goods in the U. S. before Japan's buyers could get more money to spend in the U. S. market...