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Word: spendings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much the smugglers and their customers spend is a matter for guesswork. But Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, U. S. Assistant Attorney-General, was able to put a figure, in her annual report, on at least one item-$18,883,541 worth (Canadian value) of Canadian whiskies exported to the U. S. in 1928. Previous years: 1925, 10.7 millions; 1926, 15.4 millions; 1927, 17.1 millions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Police Business | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

...Jean Baptiste (76th Street and Lexington Avenue), where the Host is displayed night and day for perpetual adoration. A group of Roman Catholic laymen, some rich, some poor, called the Nocturnal Adoration Society, meets once a week to spend the night in prayer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Manhattan Churches | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

...outstanding was the occasion that Donna Rachele Mussolini, meek mother of the Bouncing Babe, was allowed to spend the week in Rome with Il Duce, then took herself and babe off to Milan, her usual residence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bounce! Bounce! Bounce! | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...cities; 2) Relief of urban unemployment, since those deported will leave behind them many an open job; 3) Creation of a large pool of deported peasant laborers who will toil to achieve Signor Mussolini's famed program of "internal land reclamation" upon which the State purposes to spend $375,000,000 during the next 14 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Decrowd Your City! | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...peculiarly unfortunate in their relation to athletic facilities, lying as they do far from the gymnasia and squash courts of Cambridge. Students in the Law and Business Schools, as well as those in the graduate schools more closely related to the College, have always found it easy to spend a little time each day in Hemenway or a conveniently located squash court warren...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAKING HIM DRINK | 12/6/1928 | See Source »

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