Word: spent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crops plus payments by the Agricultural Adjustment Administration will total up to nearly $9,000,000,000. largest since 1929's $10,479,000,000, and more than a billion greater than last year. Though bears suggested that most of this fat income had already been spent in anticipatory or installment buying, leaving only a wrung-out remnant for fall business, joy reigned in most rural hearts as the nine billion dollar harvest moon approached its full...
Over $26,000 was spent in remodeling Stillman Infirmary in order to bring the ancient haven for the sick up to modern efficiency. Electrical equipment was installed, new medical equipment put in, fire escapes put in, the entry changed around, and practically the whole interior renovated during the summer...
During the past two years about $40,000 has been spent. Until Dr. Bock's appointment so head of the Hygiene Department few extensive alterations were made in the building, and it had become greatly outmoded...
Sneaking out of Chicago, the Vagabond spent the weekend traversing Missouri and Kansas and annoying farmers in Model T's and roadside cows with bits of dynamite that went "Bang!" and sometimes "Bang! Bang!" or just "Phfft!" Safe in Colorado Springs, he cheated the most ritzy hotel out of fifty cents for the use of their tennis courts. He headed for what he thought was Albuquerque and grew excited when two girls waved at him from a train that was chugging up a mountain. He followed the train sixty miles, only to discover he was going East...
Although the resignation has not yet been officially approved, Walsh's move is final, and approval of it is expected shortly. Last summer Walsh was in Maine, where he spent a large part of his time working on his book...