Word: spent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sojourn in Manhattan, the Loewensteins left for Chicago, Canada and the Pacific Coast, whence they will return to sail again for Europe. At the Manhattan office of J. Henry Schroder Banking Corp., banking associates of Captain Loewenstein, officials of the firm declared that at least $100,000 would be spent "without ostentation" on the tour...
Stefansson was a member of the University faculty from 1904-06, and has spent 11 1-2 years in the Arctic...
...Louis, busy mart, came 1,500 chemists for the 75th meeting of the American Chemical Society; organic chemists, inorganic chemists, biological chemists, physical chemists, industrial chemists, engineering chemists; chemists who worked with spectroscope and vacuum tube to find out the structure of the atom, chemists who spent their days with rabbit and guinea pig to ferret out the secrets of growth, chemists who messed about with saps and sawdust to build up substitutes for rubber, sugar, silk. More than 300 scientific papers were read. More than a fifth of these were on the program of the Division of Physical...
Died. Baron Kichachiro Okura, 91, millionaire merchant of Tokyo, in control of some 63 firms (hotels, theatres, steamships, shoe factories, breweries, etc.) in China and Japan; at Tokyo. Baron Okura spent $1,000,000 in a five day celebration on his 88th birthday; at 91 he proclaimed his longevity due to a diet of rice and eels...
...Ritz died 15 years ago. His widow now runs the Paris Ritz in the bar of which countless roustabouts have spent their leisure hours. Charlie Ritz, the one of César's two sons now living, has little of his father's interest in the hotel business, though it was last week rumored that he intends soon to share with his mother the management of the Ritz in Paris. An affable fellow, his mustache is waxed and he does not quite justify the magnificence of his last name...