Word: spent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...businessmen have done very well in the twelve-month just past. They took in $1,800,249, spent $1,697,376, had $546,504 in cash on hand Aug. 31. Their reported, dues-paying membership was up 383,267 to 4,006,354. Outside analysts always take union totals on suspicion, generally deflate the Federation's official figure by at least 1,000,000 to get at the actual, paid-up membership. But the most significant story of A. F. of L., 1939 was not in totals claimed or actual. It was where those reported gains were made...
...super-stolid North Germany, people's nerves seemed to be standing the blackout strain of bumps and boredom fairly well. A. Hitler, an Austrian by birth who spent his youth in Vienna, cheered up the former Austrian capital by putting it back on a basis of bright lights and tuneful night life. The ban on dancing was lifted, Vienna cabarets sprang to life, the street lights were on and last week the Viennese, incorrigibly light-hearted and easygoing, even tore from their windowpanes the dark paper pasted on when the Führer ordered blackouts...
...haired Harvey Cushing's slight & stooped figure was gigantic in neurology (see p. 71). He taught and worked at Johns Hopkins, Harvard and Yale, perfected almost single-handed the techniques of many brain and nerve operations. Caring little for relaxation, less for social affairs, he labored phenomenally, sometimes spent eight hours on an operation, then always jotted down notes and sketched diagrams for hospital records. One day in 1926, while preparing for a ticklish brain operation, he got word that his son had died. He telephoned the news to his wife, returned to his patient, performed the operation successfully...
From the start, life was all business for K. T. Keller. After putting himself through a business school-on money scraped together in such variegated activities as raising squabs and working in factories-he spent two years in the British Isles as secretary to a lecturer, returned at 21 convinced that his future lay not in a white collar but in overalls. At the Westinghouse Machine Co. plant in Pittsburgh he found what he wanted: two years apprenticeship as a machinist at 20? an hour. And in Detroit he found experience in half-a-dozen grimy shops...
...every nickel spent coking were put in a pig-bank by each college student, college would be a much less amusing place. --Baylor University Daily...