Word: spendings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Milk. "There is plenty of wine in the country, and people drink it with their meals, but they usually spend their evenings in coffeehouses, drinking strong coffee and hot milk. They sit in coffeehouses for hours, settle all the questions that vex the world, and go to bed at night happy and satisfied...
...fortnight after he had so graciously propped up his company, Mr. Rosenwald won a prize in a newspaper contest, a prize of $5 for submitting the day's best motto: "I would rather be a beggar and spend my money like a king, than be a king and spend my money like a beggar," a phrase from Robert Ingersoll, robustious iconoclast...
...Negroes, $1,500,000; to European War Relief $1,000,000. One-third of his time does this Illinois-born Jew give to charitable, religious and educational enterprises. Little does he give to himself other than a pleasant, comfortable life. A member of ten clubs, he would rather spend hours with his family in his home on Ellis Ave., Chicago...
...spacious Garden that an oval track was erected on the floor, around which the "horseless carriages" chug-chugged through their nursery paces to the mixed distrust and astonishment of gaping throngs. Up on the roof a demonstration "hill" was constructed, and here many an adventurous blood with money to spend had the ride that sold him his first motor...
...evidences of factory expansion and a renewed emphasis on quality production at the same time. Only one price-cut was made a point of, and that by a firm (Dodge) into whose product there has never gone anything but high-grade material and workmanship. The Chevrolet Co. planned to spend half a million just on speeding up its distribution. Up and down the line, company presidents were in agreement with their compeer of Nash Motors: "In the automobile industry we look for a big year...