Word: spendings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...jail, heard some bad news last week. Already incarcerated for contempt of the Senate, he heard that the U. S. Supreme Court had sustained his six-month sentence for contempt of court. He carried on with his duties in the prison pharmacy, certain in the knowledge that he would spend Christmas and New Year's behind bars...
...factory leaving the sedan for Aurelia. Almost every morning she drove down town, left the car in a hired parking space, and walked to a department store, taking note of her reflection in all the plate glass show windows on the way. In the store she might spend an hour pricing things and perhaps matching a shred of silk, buying a pair of stockings, a small vial of perfume or a box of scented powder. Then she would hurry to keep an engagement to lunch indigestibly with Stella Greeley at a confectioner...
Meanwhile Soviet authorities were preparing to spend a million rubles in the development of the Perm fields. There are no differences of opinion between the Russian government and the Russian petroleum industry. Russian oil is produced by about six Russian companies and one Japanese company with a Russian concession. The 1928 output was twelve million metric tons (26,455,200,000 lb.) Distribution and selling is handled by a government syndicate, headed by G. I. Sokolnikov. Oilman Sokolnikov, as Soviet Commissar for Finance, was famed as the financier who put Russian currency on a gold basis...
...story of Alfred Emanuel Smith tucked snugly away in his safe. Last week something occurred to bring forth the question: Will Editor Lorimer soon be "one up" on Editor Long? That something was this: To the White House went Editor Lorimer, there to dine with President Hoover, then to spend the night in a White House guest chamber. Over the dinner table, and later, up in the second story White House den, President and Editor talked. What they talked about, no one knows. From the Executive Offices came no statement. To newsgatherers Editor Lorimer said nothing, except that...
...first African port the beauty disembarks to spend a luxurious day in the tropics. The ship sails without her, on purpose. She fumes, rages, sobs?and a few weeks later is the contented concubine of a pink-lipped, glossy-black native prince...